[plug] 'different' new linux distro from New Zealand

Leon Blackwell leon at lostrealm.com
Fri Jan 10 16:48:46 WST 2003


On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 04:37:52PM +0800, Daniel wrote:
> can use 'rpm', 'deb' & 'tgz' packages and even compile from scratch ....

A linux distribution with a C compiler?
What will they think of next?  :)

Support for other package formats seems to be entriely through alien, so
there's nothing really new or exciting here.  Being able to pull apart
and install packages from different distributions is easy; having them
not break things when you do it is the hard bit  :)


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