-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison Resent-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:48:33 +0000 (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]
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