From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-27 04:56, rbowman wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   openSUSE had also YaST for managing packages visually. Now it has been   
   deprecated, and replaced with "Myrlyn", I have no idea why.   
      
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