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I’m hoping this is the future of Linux...one or two systems will emerge as a quasi-standard and lots of other systems will spring up based on it

The future is the past, most distors today find their roots with RedHat, Slackware, Debian, Suse, or a hand full of the first real distros.

What we really need for compatability is some kind of RPM / Apt naming convention. Every Linux is reall compatable its differences in how some people package and name their packages the sometimes throw a monkey wrench in the works. There have been many times I find an RPM for an app (say something like Kompose) for Suse but not RedHat. If I install with a force option it goes in and works fine.

I think Dag was trying to do this but several of the repositories for major distors disapproved

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I’ve noticed that as well. It is most often no big deal to convert packages from RPM to DEB with Alien.