A plague of daemons and the Unix Philosophy

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Monday 12 November 2007 10:50, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> This disturbs me. I hear great things about Ubuntu, but AFAICT, Fedora is
> the best and most cutting edge distro AND it's RPM based. I'm sorry, but
> I have no desire to move to a deb based system.
>
> If I was to contemplate a different distro, is there anything that is RPM
> based that people can say better things about?

Why is RPM or DEB a determining factor?  If you have a distro you like, then 
you use it.  If you're looking for another one, then you're already looking 
to change the respositories and the filesystem layouts and daemons and other 
nuances that differentiate one distro from another.  I guess if you're in the 
market for a new distro already, why eliminate DEB-based ones?
-N