[SLL] Sun Now Leaning Towards Ubuntu...

[Jesse Keating]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 08:10 -0700, Mark Foster wrote:
> Does anyone actually do this (run apt on rpm system)?
> Sounds like trouble to me.

Actually Red Hat's current rpm maintainer is the author of apt-rpm, and
it works mostly well.  Not as well as yum, but definitely provides a
familiar look and feel.

> > What's funny about Sun and Ubuntu is that Red Hat recently hired away
> > Ubuntu's only Sparc guy and a major kernel guy (Kyle McMartin).  Ubuntu
> > has some /serious/ longevity problems when they start to try and
> > actually do the long term support stuff.
> >   
> How so? I've been running Dapper (6.06 LTS) since it came out and it has 
> been very solid.
> Are you talking about resource issues @ Canonical?

I meant at Canonical.  IIRC they have more people working on Launchpad
and marketing/sales than they have distro engineers, and only Canonical
employees can commit to the core stuff (not entirely sure how bit their
"core" package set is, but it's not small).

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