[lug] Re: newbie

Well basically they all have their own form of package management.
That's what makes each distro different from the other. For instance,
fedora has rpms (i don't like them either), slackware has slack
packages, gentoo has portage and ebuilds, debian has deb files, and so
forth. They all do pretty much the same thing, but they usually have
a different way of going about it.

On 12/18/05, lordSauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 12/18/05, Mike Myers <fluffymikey@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > lordSauron, apt-get is really specific to debian, and debian based
> > distros, not so much linux. Unless the apt-get program is installed
> > on another distro, the utilities aren't going to be there.
>
> Yeah... you've got a point there. I don't know the equivalents for
> other distros, however. I don't have the time (or interest, for that
> matter) to try something else. I tried Fedora c4 once... Didn't like
> it one bit. Still amazes me how the distros can be so different, but
> still live under the same name of "Linux."
>