RPM: The story
Red Hat Magazine is running an article about the story behind RPM, the package manager for Red Hat Linux. Obviously, RPM is a central part of the user experience with the various operating systems (Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, the Fedora™ Project, SUSE, openSUSE, CentOS, and Mandriva) which all bundle it with those distributions. Despite calls for one [new] standard for package management on Linux, in December 2006 Fedora's Matt Spevack announced that Red Hat is ready to focus on RPM once again.
And rightfully so, as Red Hat, Fedora and the entire Linux community have quite a bit to gain from RPM re-establishing some of its lost momentum. Hopefully other examples will be heeded during this quasi re-building phase and the appropriate issues are addressed from the start, as RPM still has a healthy user base and community surrounding beneath it.
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