Once upon a time, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> said: > We are talking here CentOS and RHEL Linux. yum is an abbreviation of: > "Yellowdog Update Manager". It was originally created by YellowDog Linux > project for their Linux distribution. Actually, yum is Yellowdog Updater, Modified. Seth Vidal (RIP) and others at Duke rewrote YUP (the Yellowdog UPdater) to handle Red Hat Linux. -- Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>