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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 6th Jan 2008 07:41 UTC, submitted by Sabz

After seven months of comprehensive development, the popular Unix software packaging tool RPM Package Manager (RPM) was released as stable version 5.0.0. This version builds portably on a wide variety of Unix platforms and includes initial support for XAR as a package format, among other features.

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RE: Honk! Honk!

by CrLf on Sun 6th Jan 2008 18:02 UTC in reply to "Honk! Honk!"

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2006-01-03

Well, rpm is available out-of-the box on AIX...

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RE[2]: Honk! Honk!

by Doc Pain on Mon 7th Jan 2008 02:22 in reply to "RE: Honk! Honk!"

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2006-10-08

"Well, rpm is available out-of-the box on AIX..."

And AIX is a UNIX. Another UNIX is FreeBSD where RPM is available, too.

But I may ask a question. The article's description is "RPM Package Manager (RPM)". The FreeBSD ports collection lists RPM as "The Red Hat Package Manager". So, is RPM the correct abbreviation for this title or is it an recursive acronym (RPM = RPM Package Manager)?

Regarding UNIX vs. Linux, see linear algebra: the "is a", "is part of" and "is like a" identity, subset and similarity relations. :-)

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RE[3]: Honk! Honk!

by mikad on Mon 7th Jan 2008 05:00 in reply to "RE[2]: Honk! Honk!"

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2007-12-28

The original abbreviation was Red Hat Package Manager, but later they changed it to RPM Package Manager.

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