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Intel Switches From Ubuntu To Fedora For Mobile Linux

Posted by timothy on from the all-good-all-good dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to a report on heise, Intel is switching from using Ubuntu to the Fedora Project for the second version of the Intel supported Mobile & Internet Linux Project Moblin, citing a desire to use RPM package management." So far, of the various subnotebooks I've been glancing at over shoulders at OSCON, though, most of the ones with an easily identified operating system seem to be running Ubuntu.

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  1. Oh, the fools... by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 4, Informative

    citing a desire to use RPM package management

    There might be valid reasons to pick Fedora instead of Debian based systems, but package management is not one of them. Debian's package management is absolutely superior compared to everything else that I know about out there.

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  2. Re:Intellectual property issue by Qzukk · · Score: 5, Informative

    The package metadata does not contain the license beyond whether it's considered free or non-free, however every package is required to include usr/share/doc/[packagename]/copyright with the text of the license.

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  3. rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\t%{LICENSE}\n" by thule · · Score: 4, Informative

    I *think* what Intel wants is this command:

    rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\t%{LICENSE}\n"

    I didn't know that .deb didn't support this. Can anyone provide a similar dpkg command?