rpm

About: rinse is a simple tool which allows you to bootstrap a basic installation of a number of RPM-based distributions on a Debian GNU/Linux host.

About: Xarchiver is a GTK+ 2 frontend for manipulating arj, 7z, zip, rar, tar, bzip2, gzip, and RPM files.

10 awesome new features in Fedora 10, all of which are aimed at desktop users. Including ad-hoc connection sharing, RPM Fusion, prettier and fast up boot, automatic installation of restricted codecs...

Fedora 10 Preview, RPM Fusion, Link to Flash 10, & Videos of the new Graphical Boot with Plymouth

These are tutorial information about different Linux Sourceware RPM Distributions.

JMP 7 and the upcoming JMP 8 Linux installers are RPM based. This provides a challenge for Debian based Linux users.

What follows is the installation method to install JMP Linux on a Debian based system.

From a user's perspective, both Debian and RPM packages are very similar. They offer pretty much the same features and both offer similar command-line functionality.

Many end-users prefer Debian packages because of the powerful (yet user-friendly) wrapper programs like dselect, tasksel, and apt-get.

I just released new RPM sets, which is based on Oct 11 11:30 PM EEST CVS snapshot.

I was in a meeting the other day with some salespeople from Novell, and we were discussing how RPM is essential broken, and its been frozen in time since the late 90’s.

I suggested looking at the most popular Linux distribution for inspiration on packaging. The salespeople looked puzzled, What distribution is that?

“Ubuntu” I said...

Once again we are back to pop the balloon of another Linux myth. This one is that Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) is not good to use.

For newbies to Linux, packages are software. In other words, the programs one uses like Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and OpenOffice.org office suite placed in a package for one’s chosen Linux distribution.

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