Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th Apr 2003 17:10 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews Today, Red Hat Linux 9 has been "officially" released to the masses via the FTP servers, and we host here a mini-interview with Matt Wilson, Manager, Base Operating Systems at Red Hat, Inc.
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RPM v APT
by Alan on Mon 7th Apr 2003 21:39 UTC

Its a common mistake to compare RPM with APT. RPM is at the same level as dpkg. The rpm in Red Hat 9 will suggest dependancy resolutions but that isnt its job. Multiple tools sit on top of RPM to do that (apt4rpm, Red Carpet, Up2date etc)