Debian, Fedora, Redhata Linux?

Hello Group,

Lately I am seeing so many OSes and new terms. I tried to compile
Kannel (a WAP gateway)
program and it confused me with following jargon.

It has packages for Debian, Fedora and Redhat Linux. Could someone
please tell me what are
all these and what is the difference among all three.

Besides there are Yum, Apt. Could someone also through some light on
these as well.

What are the dangers of installing Debian packages on Redhat Linux or
there is nothing.

One last question. When I visited Redhat site. I found some
directory/packages named
dag and dries. Please tell me what is the significance of these two
terms.

Thanks in advance. I am thoroughly confused. I am guessing more and
more people would want
to know about these terms.

Thanks once again

nagrik

On 1 Nov 2006 09:36:40 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hello Group,

> Lately I am seeing so many OSes and new terms. I tried to compile
> Kannel (a WAP gateway)
> program and it confused me with following jargon.

> It has packages for Debian, Fedora and Redhat Linux. Could someone
> please tell me what are
> all these and what is the difference among all three.

Debian, Fedora and Redhat are different distributions of Linux. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution

Some are clones of one another: Redhat Enterprise Linux, CentOS,
Scientific Linux, White Box Linux, others.

Some are similar: Fedora Core X, Redhat Eneterprise Linux.

Some are very different: Gentoo, just about all the others.

> Besides there are Yum, Apt. Could someone also through some light on
> these as well.

Yum and Apt are package management systems. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management_system
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_package_formats

> What are the dangers of installing Debian packages on Redhat Linux or
> there is nothing.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

> One last question. When I visited Redhat site. I found some
> directory/packages named
> dag and dries. Please tell me what is the significance of these two
> terms.

Dag and Dries are package repositories. They contain many packages
which are specially packaged in various ways for various
distributions. See:

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/
or
http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/

> Thanks in advance. I am thoroughly confused. I am guessing more and
> more people would want
> to know about these terms.

> Thanks once again

> nagrik

You're welcome, and once again.

--
Dale Dellutri <(E-Mail Removed)> (lose the Q's)

On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:36:40 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Hello Group,
>
> Lately I am seeing so many OSes and new terms. I tried to compile
> Kannel (a WAP gateway)
> program and it confused me with following jargon.
>
> It has packages for Debian, Fedora and Redhat Linux. Could someone
> please tell me what are
> all these and what is the difference among all three.

Debian uses .deb packages. RedHat, Fedora, Suse, Mandrivel and a bunch of
others use .rpm packages (redhat package management). The formats are not
compatible.

>
> Besides there are Yum, Apt. Could someone also through some light on
> these as well.

These are package management programs for different systems.

>
> What are the dangers of installing Debian packages on Redhat Linux or
> there is nothing.

Depending on how intimate the program is with the Linux kernel, the
dangers can be severe to none. You would need a tool to convert from one
format to the other. On Debian systems 'alien' does that.

>
> One last question. When I visited Redhat site. I found some
> directory/packages named
> dag and dries. Please tell me what is the significance of these two
> terms.
>
> Thanks in advance. I am thoroughly confused. I am guessing more and
> more people would want
> to know about these terms.
>
> Thanks once again
>
> nagrik