Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 25th Oct 2003 05:13 UTC, submitted by Charles Krohn
Today, Ian Murdock described his recent work on APT to the Debian community. This announcement has far-ranging implications for the future of Fedora and Debian projects. Ars Technica has the details.
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Even if this doesn't bring Fedora and Debian closer together, Debian will now contain RPM compatibility via apt instead of just alien. It will also include another installer for us to allow our lesser knowledgable freinds install our favorate distro. I see no down side to this, Ian is a god!
Best case scenario, RedHat see's how useless Fedora is, releases everything to Debian, Debian becomes the central place for all things Open Source. OK, I think I went a little far with that one, but this does seem like what Progency is leading to...
I don't think this announcement will really effect anything to much though, other then RPM APT repositories being accessable to people running Debian that don't know any better then to use RPM's...
/me would like to see Debian being the central place for all community based developement in the open source community!