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I hate having to ask this, but how do you install programs?
LorKorub:
Debian offers RPM support as well. It isn't native, so you have to get the packages via APT or Deselect.
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by doublefresh:
Bah! What I meant to say was since when did RPM become part of the kernel? Obviously it's not part of the kernel.
I'm sure if you had a distro that did not include RPM you could install it later. Just like if you installed Winzip later on Microsoft 98.
I would not consider Winzip to be part of the operating system just as I do not think of RPM as part of the operating system. RPM is an add on.
Even though taskman is not part of the kernel most people would agree it's part of the microsoft operating system. Perhaps someone bought Microsoft office with microsoft 98. I would not consider Microsoft office part of the operating system even though the user may have bought the two together for a special price.
I have read a book or two on Linux and I've installed at least 6 different versions of it at one time or another. I do not consider myself comfortable using Linux yet because simple tasks still take me hours and hours. With time I hope to get better. In the meantime when I need to do something quickly I go with what I know, MS. When I have time to burn I try on Mandrake 9
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Tell me something. Is "Add/Remove Programs" part of the Windows kernel? No? Is it part of the operating system? Yes? The RPM database serves the same function as "Add/Remove" programs. You can't install RedHat without RPM so you are wrong, you can't add it later, it's part of the operating system. Is "pkgadd" in Solaris part of the operating system? Yes.
It's the same as RPM in RedHat/Mandrake/SuSe/Connectiva, etc. And it's the same as apt in Debian/Koppix, etc. And it's the same as installp in AIX. They are package management systems. Just like Add/Remove programs in Windows. An integral part of the OS. You *must* have an MCSE because the last time I met someone as clueless as you they had MCSE on their resume. No wait, Zombie just left, I don't believe he had an MCSE. At least he had some sense.
[ November 19, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by LorKorub / BOB:
Debian offers RPM support as well. It isn't native, so you have to get the packages via APT or Deselect.
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Debian actually has a superior packaging system to RPM, but we won't get into that.
doublefresh:
I've got half an MCSE and only in NT4 it was enough to get me the job I have now.
voidmain:
Are you saying it was the MCSE (or half of one) that got you the job? Or was it you that got you the job? I've seen many a resume come across my desk with MCSE printed on them, which for some companies gets the person to the next level in the interview process (and that's all it does). But it doesn't mean beans when it comes to who I hire.
And I've never seen a resume with MCSE/2 on it, that would be interesting indeed. The typical MCSE is someone who has never touched a computer, gone through the MCSE program because they heard they could get paid a lot of money to work with computers, and that the MCSE is their ticket. They get to a real job (if they are lucky) and then can't trouble-shoot their way out of a cardboard box. Not all fit this example, but I would go out on a limb and say that most fall into this category.
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