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Posted by michael on Tuesday November 13, 2001 @09:52AM from the land-down-under dept.

Patrick Mullen writes: "The Duke of URL has posted their review of Conectiva Linux 7.0. Conectiva Linux was the first distribution to support APT-RPM, which cures most of the ails of typical RPMs. Their latest release even bundles a graphical front-end to APT, and brings the worlds of Debian and Red Hat together."

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Boom! (Score:3, Funny)

by adamwright ( 536224 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2001 @10:07AM (#2557982) Homepage

Conectiva Linux was the first distribution to support APT-RPM

I would've though there'd be some sort of matter/antimatter explosion when apt and rpm came together judging by the flamewars I've seen....

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Number of packages (Score:2, Funny)

by n-tone ( 535094 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2001 @11:04AM (#2558210) Homepage

How many applications is bundled with this distribution ?
If there are less than 7000 programs you shouldn't buy it ;-)

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