From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:49:28 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:   
      
   > The BIG differences between distributions are - initd vs systemd - RPM   
   > vs apt   
      
   Well, sort of.  There are .deb and .rpm packages.  The Apt Package Tool   
   uses .deb packages. Most Debian derived distros I'm familiar with use   
   apt.   
      
   There is a RPM Package manager that uses .rpm files (surprise), but there   
   are frontends for it too. Fedora did use yum but now uses dnf. /usr/bin/   
   yum is a symlink to dnf.  OpenSUSE has zypper and a couple of other .rpm   
   based distros have their own package managers.   
      
   Then there is Arch Linux and pacman. That's the odd one. Rather than dnf   
   update or apt update is pacman -Syu, with a similar syntax for installs.   
   There are ways, not recommended, to use .deb or .rpm packages in Arch. I'm   
   not that brave. Then there is the yay frontend to the Arch User Repository   
   (AUR) that's more like automating building a tarball.   
      
   There's probably other schemes given the 100+ distros.   
      
   You also missed the other big food fight, Wayland vs. x11.   
      
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