Re: [gentoo-user] Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison
Original Message Subject: Re: Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison Resent-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:48:33 + (UTC) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:47:19 -0700 From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 17:58 +0200, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: I am just curious which distribution have the most packaged Open Source software. It seems to me this is Debian? Is there a good comparison (numbers, statistics, etc)? Debian, by a long shot. 26,000 packages. Next closest competitor (Ubuntu) has 23,000. Most (all?) of the RPM-based distributions are below 10,000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions#Features This isn't really much surprise, though. RPM distributions have been rather incomplete compared to the Debian ones for over a decade now. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison
On 06/17/2008 08:20 PM, Edward Hades wrote: Maybe counting source packages would get better approximation? Or counting unique upstream project URL's. Counting the lines of source code would be most appropriate. cheers Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison
Hi Gentoo users I am just curious which distribution have the most packaged Open Source software. It seems to me this is Gentoo. Is there a good comparison (numbers, statistics, etc)? cheers Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison
On 06/15/2008 08:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: How would you measure it? Number of packages wouldn't work, because distros split up packages differently. Most accurate would be number of upstream projects cheers Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
