What's after OpenLinux?

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 05:11:23PM -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote:

>Oh I think there are a lot of refugees from the rpm farm on this list:) I
>left rpm behind a while back, been using mainly  Slackware and of course
>that build_it_yourself_unmentionable_G  oops I almost said it distro.  What
>I enjoy with both of these distro's is that if I find a program  (xcircuit
>comes to mind) I would like to evaluate, I wont be chasing all over the
>internet to satisfy its dependencies, nor will I be (as I was with Caldera)
>stopped because of way out-dated libs.

I've been building RPMS for a variety of systems for several years now, and
really like the philosophy of building from pristine sources under control
of a SPEC file.  We're using RPM on Linux, OS X, and SCO OpenServer, and I
can generally write spec files that will build on all the platforms we
support.

I read about the OpenPKG system in SysAdmin magazine late last year.  It's
an RPM based system developed by Cable and Wireless in Europe to help them
maintain a large number of heterogeneous Unix and Linux systems for their
ISP operations.

Bill
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