These 4 package managers outlasted the Linux distros that created them
News Source : MakeUseOf
News Summary
- RPM is probably the most successful example of a package tool escaping its original distro context.
- RPM remains the base layer for Fedora, RHEL, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, openSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Oracle Linux.
- YUM has one of those Linux names that sounds like a joke until you realize how much server history is hiding inside it.
- Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Linux ecosystem was not just divided by desktop environments but also by package management philosophies.
Linux distributions are oddly mortal for projects that spend so much time preaching stability.
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