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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. Does the world really need this? by Baloo+Ursidae · · Score: 0, Troll

    Honestly, what good comes from another distribution broken by RPM's poor package management, when .debs just work?

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  2. Yet Another RPM Distro by tacocat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please don't continue to support a packaging system that has fundamental flaws to it.

    Why do you think there are so many DEB based distros out there today? Because Debian is free? So is Fedora, isn't it? Maybe it's the packaging is better than RPM.

    Why are all the RPM based distros shipping with their own cobbled version of apt-get? Maybe it's the packaging concept is better than RPM.

    Why didn't Gentoo use RPM?

    Slackware still isn't RPM based and they are doing well enough thank you.

    I'm getting a little tired of all these distros popping up every two weeks claiming to be the latest and greatest since sliced bread. I don't even thing the facade of community based means a whole lot these days. There's been a few good ones with a fundamental approach that's different, but not a lot.