Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 09/13/2009 05:27 AM, Phil Meyer wrote:

> Those who prefer BSD enjoy working on Debian or Debian based distros
> (Like Ubuntu) and provide base level tools and administration likely to
> please the BSD centric crowd.  The problem is that BSD and SYSV5 both
> had very rudimentary packaging tools, with the SYSV5 pkg tools being
> best of class for the time.
> 
> I don't mean to create revisionist history here, just point out that
> after Linux became popular, as in usable, the package management issue
> came front and center, and the two camps remained divided.
> 
> The BSD camps chose deb (for the most part) and the SYSV5 camps went
> with RedHat's package manager, rpm.
> 
> It is still that way.

Debian just switched to Upstart, the same init system used in Fedora for
the last few releases, FYI.

Rahul