.deb vs rpm

So I was doing some reading on Open Suse and Fedora. I personally really like Fedora, in my ecperience it seemed to work faster then Ubuntu. The only thing about those two is the rpm packages they use, it was hell to work with sometimes. .deb packages just seem to work so much better with the OS and hardware supported by the OS.

I guess I am asking what in the hell is the point of rpm and what is your guys take on it.

All it is, is different distros take on the package system. I dont really care much for rpms,
so i always convert to debs before installing. ( I pretty much only use debian based systems now)
Alien is a great tool btw. If you compile something from source, instead of doing
make
make install
you can just turn it into a .deb and then use gdebi or something to install it.

Rpm packages began with Redhat and like you, I believe they're a pain! You may be able to guess what I think of pane and pain!

It sounds as if you are ready to move on from ubuntu. You may find CrunchBang to your liking. Or, if you are really wanting to learn about linux, try Salix. The former is a true Debian-based distro and the latter is as close to Slackware as it gets. Both have a very helpful forum.

Be happy, joyous and pane-free!

I have used Fedora many of times, Open Suse, Linux Mint (including xcfe and LXDE), I am with Ubuntu mainly because I do not like Windows for myself and Ubuntu can do easy to complex. Plenty of great apps and tools and it runs great with no possible viruses.

pane-free said:

. Or, if you are really wanting to learn about linux, try Salix.

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Now, if you really, really, really want to learn about linux, try Gentoo
EVERYTHING is complied from source. No package manager, all on you.

deb and rpm are just two different methods of doing basically the same thing. different distros use different methods because... well because they're different distros. I like deb better. Ubuntu is more or less the easiest linux out there.. my mom used it no problem before she bought a mac because vista was running slow on her laptop. Most people don't have time to learn linux, so if someone really wants linux I'd recommend Ubuntu because basic stuff like software installation, etc. is a lot easier.