the 'which distro' question

[Alma J Wetzker]

Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>  I run gentoo for my server and my main machine.  (Although I
>> have let it get so far out of date that I must do a reinstall soon.
>> Almost five years is a pretty good stretch for a modern distro, I think.)
> 
> I looked at the Gentoo site for a minute.  It uses some gadget called 
> Portage for installing packages.  But I can't find anything about rpm. 
> I must have something that is happy with rpm, if for no other reason 
> than that there are 10 gazillion applications out there that have rpm's. 
>   What do you think:  does Portage know rpm?

Portage doesn't know RPM, but you can install an RPM package manager.  I
have.  It is just a different way of looking at product installs.  You
get that when you change distro families.

    -- Alma