Some releases by date and by total size of current i386 binary packages.
Number NN under each distro code indicates initial 2.6.NN kernel version.
Uh
20 GB . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 . . . . D5
.. Ug.
Hi Debian users
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)?
cheers
Simon
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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
Simon writes:
I am just curious which distribution have the most packaged Open Source
software.
That's hard to say. Debian probably has the most packages, but Debian
packages are also more fine grained than many: Debian packages seperately
pieces of software that others clump together.
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:09:24 -0500, John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Simon writes:
I am just curious which distribution have the most packaged Open
Source software.
That's hard to say. Debian probably has the most packages, but Debian
packages are also more fine grained than many:
On 2008-06-17 22:07 +0200, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Count source packages. That gets away from distro specific
slicing and dicing of packages, and better represents the effort taken
to package software.
True.
I still think that Debian is ahead by source package count, but
On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
A quick web search shows that Debian sid and Gentoo are
roughly at par with 12000+ source packages¹ each. Both are
outnumbered by FreeBSD ports, though; they have more than
18000 packages available².
Gentoo and FreeBSD (and others) include some
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 09:47 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
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)?
consultores writes:
I've read that using Slackware, one can install .rpm, .deb, .gtz, .tz
etc. In few words, more packages!
You can do that on any distribution (such as Debian) that offers the
'alien' package. You may be disappointed in the results, though. In any
case, the question was about
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 17:53 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
consultores writes:
I've read that using Slackware, one can install .rpm, .deb, .gtz, .tz
etc. In few words, more packages!
You can do that on any distribution (such as Debian) that offers the
'alien' package. You may be disappointed
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 15:08 -0700, consultores wrote:
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 09:47 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
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
On Tue, June 17, 2008 4:23 pm, consultores wrote:
OK, BTW, Are free source all the packages included in Debian? What about
SeLinux?
... this is Debian you're talking about.
http://www.debian.org/social_contract
#2 of the DSFG:
Source Code
The program must include source code, and must
consultores writes:
OK, BTW, Are free source all the packages included in Debian?
Are you asking if Debian makes the source for all the packages in Main
available? Of course! Otherwise it wouldn't be Free Software!
What about SeLinux?
SELinux is an integral part of the Linux kernel, and
On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Steve Lamb wrote:
The program must include source code, and must allow
distribution in source code as well as compiled form.
but there is the non-free section, which includes some
closed-source products that are proprietary in every way. I
see license statements
al davis writes:
but there is the non-free section
Which is officially not part of Debian.
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John Hasler
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