Comments on: Interesting news out of the Intel camp

By: Rudd-O

Rudd-O — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:11:35 +0000

Sorry but RPM is technically superior to deb. In fact, the reason multilib is so easy in Fedora is precisely because of this technical superiority of RPM. And RPM is more robust.

Take it from me, I’ve been using Ubuntu for more than one year and I switched back to Fedora 64 bit last week.

By: J5

J5 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:00:20 +0000

@Manny: As in anything there are always more complex reasons for a decision than one can simply boil down to one catalyst. Yours seems especially specious. Though that may have been a technical bullet point I have never seen someone totally ditch one foundation for another based on something so trivial. It would be business suicide as such a switch is pretty costly. If Moblin did its homework, which I have to believe they did, then they believe that the switch will have benefits down the line which will justify the initial cost.

By: i, quaid › A word about Intel’s Moblin and Fedora

i, quaid › A word about Intel’s Moblin and Fedora — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:04:51 +0000

[...] us at the Fedora booth at OSCON to say, “Go talk with those guys right now!” So we did. Folks seem to be wondering similar questions, hopefully this post answers or points in the right [...]

By: Rahul Sundaram

Rahul Sundaram — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:16:20 +0000

“From an outsiders perspective Redhat seems to contribute”

Not only does it seem to, it actually does

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions for some details.

By: Karl Lattimer

Karl Lattimer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:17:41 +0000

Try using deb in any real scale… It really sucks! RPM is a far better packaging system easier to manage etc… (one file is better than a dozen)

I’ve heard that conary is even better than RPM, and that IPS is pretty good too. For me RPM has always been easier to manage, more robust and generally more sane than deb.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:28:08 +0000

From an outsiders perspective Redhat seems to contribute more than Ubuntu in coding for Intel hardware (graphics etc) so perhaps in terms of “developer community” Fedora is a better fit.

Ubuntu has a great community but it seems focused mostly on end-user polish rather than core development.

By: Manny

Manny — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:09:47 +0000

The sole purpuse of switching to rpm is to be able to put information about the packages license INTO the package. No big deal. Anyways – moblin? Who cares…

By: a

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:25:31 +0000

Ouch. From the article, this seems pretty misguided: switching to RPM is not going to provide “community push” and the usefulness of a SuSE tie-in is questionable. It sounds like Dirk Hohndel just likes RPM. Well, good luck with that…

By: ignacio

ignacio — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:08:30 +0000

No, nothing quite so interesting.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00198.html