I disagree. RPM got a bad rep due to the very shoddy work Red Hat used to do in their repositories and because people used to grab RPMs from all over the place that would break their setup. There is nothing technical that prevents and RPM based distro to be as solid as a Deb based one. In fact, I have been running PCLinuxOS, which as RPM based distro, for years and I still have *never* had any dependency issues. I cannot say the same thing for my escapades with Kubuntu.

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And by the way, PCLinuxOS is a community oriented distro and a very popular one at that. Form many months it was at the top of the Distrowatch site. It dropped from there gradually due to Texstar's sabbatical, but he is back in full force. PCLinuxOS 2010 is going to be something to behold. Just watch.
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