It has been years since we started talking about the ‘year of Linux’. Finally, good news for open source buffs? Well, we really can’t predict that. But, there is a hope that the coming time could be a real turning point in the history of open source, making 2008 the year of Linux on desktop. Though Linux will not be a direct replacement for Windows,we are definitely going to see a major increase in the number of end-users adopting Linux. PC giant Dell, at the beginning of this year, gaveus a positive sign by introducing Linux computers. A number of other vendors are also betting high on Linux. Ubuntu has already received recognition among mobile users and server market. Linux Desktop, though gradually, is gaining momentum. At this point in time, we can only wait and watch the game!

Thank you,

Ravi Bhure.

 

RPM is a powerful and mature command-line driven package management system capable of

installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating Unix software packages. Each software 

package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its 

version, a description, and the like.

WHAT IS NEW IN RPM 5.0.0

·         The Automake/Autoconf/Libtool-based build environment of RPM was completely revamped 

from scratch and as one major result mostly all third-party libraries now can be linked externally and 

in a very flexible way.

·         Support for the ancient and obsolete "rpmrc" files was completely removed, as everything is 

now configured through RPM "macros" under run-time only.

·         The RPM code base was ported to all major platforms, including the BSD, Linux, 

Solaris and Mac OS X Unix flavors and Windows/Cygwin.

·         RPM packages now also support LZMA compression apart from Gzip and Bzip2.

·         RPM is now able to automatically track vendor distribution files with its new vcheck(1) based "%track" section 

and now can automatically download the vendor distribution files, too.

Read the official press release click here.

Thank you,

Ravi Bhure.