From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Yawar Amin" Subject: Re: SuSE 10.0 and it's RPM 4.1.1?? Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 15:57:06 +0800 Message-ID: References: <20060405151039.GA1065@lnx2.kvinet.com> <200604060902.11198.sotl155360@earthlink.net> <20060407182326.GA1046@lnx2.kvinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060407182326.GA1046@lnx2.kvinet.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On 4/8/06, Hal MacArgle 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. -- Yawar Malaysia +60 (12) 918 6642 Bangladesh +880 (174) 614 754 or +880 (2) 882 1848 or +880 (175) 003 706 or +880 (189) 250 170 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs