[luau] fedora q's

[Charles Lockhart]

I've been trying to understand fedora, but am still confused about a few 
things.

The Fedora Project generates package management (install, update) tools, 
such as apt and yum?

How are apt and yum different?  yum seems to primarily for checking on 
updates for the currently installed packages, and updates those.  apt 
seems to do the same things as yum, but offers the additional 
functionality of checking what other packages are available and 
installing those as well.  That's what it seems like, but then that 
would make yum redundant, so I'm assuming I'm missing the bigger picture.

You need to keep your system "pure", ie only use/install RH and Fedora 
packages?

In response to a problem I was having with version issues between RH 7.3 
and RH 9 ( that RH 9 has some functionality "dumbed down" to remove 
liability for distributing software that uses things like mpeg, etc ), 
Warren mentioned that the full user versions could be downloaded and 
installed using fedora and a 3rd party server.  What 3rd party servers 
are availble?

Is fedora a viable candidate for maintaining a systems security patches? 
  For example, the recent openssh vulnerability, and subsequent security 
updates, is this something that fedora is designed to handle?

Sorry for the dumb questions.  I just don't want to make any assumptions 
on what the functionality is.

-Charles