[clue-tech] Distro musings

Jed S. Baer thag at frii.com
Sat Jul 29 17:39:41 MDT 2006


On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:51:57 -0600
Matt Gushee wrote:

> > And yes, I've had the <shudder> privilege of doing
> > exactly that. Interestingl bit of trivia: Caldera was the primary
> > developer of the RPM package manager
> 
> No kidding! So why isn't it called CPM?

Probably so the SCO folks wouldn't confuse it with an OS for the Z80.
(Anybody still have an old Kaypro laying around?)

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