20 most popular non-debian pacages in Skolelinux
I had a look at popcon.skolelinux.org, now that it is operational, and
the list of non-Debian packages in use. This is the top 20 list, from
<URL:http://popcon.skolelinux.org/unknown/by_vote>.
#rank name inst vote old recent no-files (maintainer)
1 liblocale-maketext-simple-perl 108 73 34 1 0 (Not in sid)
2 lvm-common 108 69 37 2 0 (Not in sid)
3 adept-notifier 75 43 31 1 0 (Not in sid)
4 acroread-debian-files 61 40 17 4 0 (Not in sid)
5 acroread 61 39 18 4 0 (Not in sid)
6 gij-4.1 102 36 65 1 0 (Not in sid)
7 nagios2 55 24 29 2 0 (Not in sid)
8 flashplayer-mozilla 43 17 1 0 25 (Not in sid)
9 libxul0d 110 15 4 1 90 (Not in sid)
10 linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 77 14 53 10 0 (Not in sid)
11 opera 20 14 2 4 0 (Not in sid)
12 freenx 31 12 11 0 8 (Not in sid)
13 acroread-data 59 10 6 3 40 (Not in sid)
14 openoffice.org-ure 16 10 6 0 0 (Not in sid)
15 sepiida-agent 11 10 1 0 0 (Not in sid)
16 acroread-escript 58 8 5 3 42 (Not in sid)
17 linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 63 8 52 2 1 (Not in sid)
18 mozilla-acroread 52 8 3 1 40 (Not in sid)
19 openoffice.org-debian-menus 10 8 2 0 0 (Not in sid)
20 realplayer 16 8 7 1 0 (Not in sid)
Most of these are obsolete packages, but some are user applications
where we probably should try to provide a free software alternative
for within Debian:
4 acroread-debian-files 61 40 17 4 0 (Not in sid)
5 acroread 61 39 18 4 0 (Not in sid)
13 acroread-data 59 10 6 3 40 (Not in sid)
16 acroread-escript 58 8 5 3 42 (Not in sid)
18 mozilla-acroread 52 8 3 1 40 (Not in sid)
Adobes PDF reader. The free alternatives have been lacking when it
come to form support and encryption. Hope this can be solved soon.
Would be nice to have a good enough PDF viewer as free software in
Squeeze.
8 flashplayer-mozilla 43 17 1 0 25 (Not in sid)
Adobe Flash player. Gnash is still not good enough, but it handle
most web ads and some of the video sites.
11 opera 20 14 2 4 0 (Not in sid)
Web server. I guess Firefox/Iceweasel is a good enough alternative,
but would be good to know why people still use Opera. Personally I
use it because I lack the time to migrate to Iceweasel while keeping
my browser history, bookmarks, certificates etc.
12 freenx 31 12 11 0 8 (Not in sid)
Remote desktop. There are alternatives, but I am not sure they have
the same feature set.
14 openoffice.org-ure 16 10 6 0 0 (Not in sid)
15 sepiida-agent 11 10 1 0 0 (Not in sid)
No idea what these are.
20 realplayer 16 8 7 1 0 (Not in sid)
Media player. Can vlc/xine/gmplayer play the same files?
Happy hacking,
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Petter Reinholdtsen
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