Fwd: First stable of Mageia is out!

Wed Jun 1 20:20:42 UTC 2011

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 04:16:17PM -0400, Sadiq Saif wrote:
> Yeah, I'm very much a Debian guy myself (first distro was Ubuntu 8.04), but
> I also really like Arch Linux's package management system Pacman and to a an
> extent yaourt.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by a RPM system being incompatible

Trying to install packages from mandriva on redhat or suse or whatever
else or vice versa generally isn't a good idea.  For .deb based systems
it is extremely rare to have it not work perfectly.

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