From: "Yawar Amin" <yawar.amin@gmail.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SuSE 10.0 and it's RPM 4.1.1??
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 15:57:06 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <efc7f7d00604080057m79b96ea6m28c9253192579bdf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060407182326.GA1046@lnx2.kvinet.com>
On 4/8/06, Hal MacArgle <haltec@kvinet.com> wrote:
> > If I recall correctly RPM stands for Red Hat Package Manager which I believe
> > is uses by Fedora/Redhat and FreeMandriva/Mandriva/Mandrake.
>
> True AFAIK; plus others including Slackware that has the rpm
> program but warns us that it doesn't work with all apps... Open
> Source keeps us on our toes, eh?? Could it be with SuSe that it means
> something like Reliable Package Manager, instead of RedHat Package
> Manager?? Stranger things have happened.. The study of acronyms is
> another PhD dissertation..
Believe it or not, RPM stands for RPM Package Manager.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-08 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-05 15:10 SuSE 10.0 and it's RPM 4.1.1?? Hal MacArgle
[not found] ` <200604060902.11198.sotl155360@earthlink.net>
2006-04-07 18:23 ` Hal MacArgle
2006-04-07 21:06 ` Ray Olszewski
2006-04-08 17:36 ` Hal MacArgle
2006-04-08 7:57 ` Yawar Amin [this message]
[not found] ` <200604081200.09659.sotl155360@earthlink.net>
2006-04-10 12:16 ` Yawar Amin
2006-04-10 12:22 ` cRaig
[not found] ` <200604062314.25999.edgaralwers@gmx.de>
2006-04-07 18:56 ` Hal MacArgle
2006-04-07 20:09 ` Dr. Edgar Alwers
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