Star ISO Makes Linux Standards Base a Standard
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Nov 2005 21:03 UTC
Linux The Open Source Business Conference here will open on Tuesday to the news from the Free Standards Group that the Linux Standards Base has been approved as an ISO standard.
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RE[3]: RPMs vs. DEBs
by on Wed 2nd Nov 2005 23:58 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: RPMs vs. DEBs"

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"It works that way because it checks the repository each time instead of requiring you to run apt-get update manually. You might find the yum -C switch to be quite useful here. see the man page for details"

Thanks, I'll have to remember that. I wonder if there would be an easy way to do a benchmark between the speed of RPMs vs Debs. If I recall correctly, one of the supposed advantages of RPM over Deb was that it used gpg, which they finally added to the 6.x version of apt. But I still think that RPM does it per package, whereas apt does it just on the repository? not sure about that, but it could be why rpms take longer to install.

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