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New Community-Run RPM-based Distribution

Posted by timothy on from the whacking-at-a-gift-horse's-teeth dept.

KainX writes "As an alternative to the Red Hat-controlled Fedora project, the community-led cAos Foundation decided to create a fully community-built, community-controlled, RPM-based distribution whose foundation would be a self-hosting, self-sufficient core with a 3-5 year support lifetime. The first stable, production-worthy core has now been officially released! Download an ISO from a mirror and try it out."

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  1. I'm pretty amazed... by wolf31o2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They're claiming that they're going to support a 3-5 year support lifecycle. That is unheard of for a community-based distribution! I would love to see these guys do well, and hope they really can stick to their support lifecycle.

    I always enjoy hearing about new community-based distributions. It will be a bit strange having an RPM-based distribution out there, but now we have YUM that provides the required functionality that RPM lacks, such as automatic dependency resolution, ala portage or apt.

  2. Re:Yet Another RPM Distro by slashkitty · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The reason is simple, because that's where the developers are. Look at some of the most active open source APPS and you'll see that they release their product in 2 or 3 forms... RPM, GZ source and maybe a binary. I'm all for a better package manager... but I think that developers have decided that RPM is better... at least easier to distribute their apps in.

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