Originally posted by bkor
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Red Hat had up2date then, they didn't ship with yum until RHEL5. I remember having problems with that, but I think it was mainly because there was a lot of software that wasn't in the official repos, so you would add an external repo, which would eventually get out of sync with the official one and cause problems. Ubuntu handled the external software situation a bit better by incorporating way more packages into the official repository - Ubuntu had 14000 packages vs Red Hat's 4000 - and by later introducing PPAs so they could host and rebuild user-contributed packages automatically.
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