[CentOS] OpenSSL Update - not a security update???

Chris Adams linux at cmadams.net
Wed Mar 2 15:57:33 UTC 2016


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.

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Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>



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