From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [216.28.214.193] (helo=mail.valkyrie.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 179BnG-0000Zb-00 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 17:31:14 -0400 Received: (qmail 16772 invoked by uid 0); 18 May 2002 21:31:17 -0000 Received: from mlbg-usr2-209-189.valkyrie.net (HELO stargate) (216.28.209.189) by mail.valkyrie.net with SMTP; 18 May 2002 21:31:17 -0000 Message-ID: <002401c1feb4$21ec7ec0$0100a8c0@stargate> From: "Thomas Ward" To: Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon. Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 17:36:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Yes, rpm is the default package manager for Mandrake. Actually, it is safe to say it is the package manager for almost all the major distributions including: Red Hat, Mandrake, Turbolinux, Open Linux, Suse, and some others I haven't mentioned. DDebian and Slackware are the only ones I know of that don't use rpm as the default package manager. Second, reason for using rpm is once I get a standard kernel made for Mandrake 8.2 all someone will need to do is download the packages and run an rpm -Uv filename.i586.rpm and it will upgrade your existing kernel with my speakup one.