Re: (-) Sorry, your distribution type is unsupported.

["Bruce W. Bigby" <bbigby rochester rr com>]

Warren Young wrote:
> 
> Michael Thomas wrote:
> >
> > What is the improvement to the RPM system.Faster Better Smarter ????
> 
> I don't know everything about it, but the change that requires your RPM
> database to be updated is due to the fact that they changed from
> Berkeley DB 1.85 to Berkeley DB 3.1.  I don't know what exactly that
> buys them, but DB 1.85 is ancient in computer terms.  It exists solely
> because it's under a BSD-style license, while 2.0 and up were commercial
> software, except that people writing free software (like Red Hat with
> RPM) didn't have to pay license fees.
> 
> More info on Berkeley DB can be found at sleepycat.com.
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I'm curious about this Berkely DB.  How does it differ from databases,
such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle.  Also, does RedHat 7.0 ship with
PostgreSQL?  Why doesn't RedHat uses PostgreSQL?
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