[techtalk] Package managers, was: X in Corel vs. Red Hat (was: winmodem sounddriver)

[Ian Phillips]

> Could you specify what you mean with "more smoothly" -- I don't want to
> sound hostile, I'm just interested. Hey, I upgraded a running system from
> libc5 to glibc with RPM, if that isn't smooth, what else? Admittedly, I
> had to reboot to get the glibc version of init running instead of the old 
> one.

Wow, I'm impressed with that! I only started using RH at 5.0 (used to use slackware), and it was already glibc by then. One question you (or Cynthia) may be able to answer for me, why does RH still use bash 1.x as it's default shell, I'm sure that there is a good reason but I don't know what it is :-)

Yours,
Ian.

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