Re: choose slackware or debian?
>>"Patrick" == Patrick Hsieh <pahud@pahud.net> writes:
Patrick> My question is, how can I get the current development status
Patrick> of each, e.g. number of official developers of each and how
Patrick> did the number increase or decrease in the last years; how
Patrick> many packages currently in each distribution and how much
Patrick> user base of each?
Looking at the vote.debian.org pages, in 1999 there were 347
developers, right now there are 939. And I think that looking at the
Packages files for various versions shall tell you how many packages
there were. Looking at the debian-history document, and looking at
the current woody Packages files, we have:
*sid 9038 packages
* woody is not yet released 939 developers 8499 packages
* potato is Debian 2.2 15 Aug 2000 ~450 developers ~3900 packages
* slink is Debian 2.1 09 Mar 1999 347 developers ~2250 packages
* hamm is Debian 2.0 Jul 1998 347 developers ~1500 packages
* bo is Debian 1.3 Jul 1997 200 developers 974 packages
* rex is Debian 1.2 Dec 1996 120 developers 848 packages
* buzz is Debian 1.1 Jun 1996 ~ 80-100 developers 474 packages
Debian 0.93R6 Nov 1995 60 developers
Debian 0.93R5 Mar 1995
Debian 0.91 Jan 1994 several dozen developers
manoj
who joined between 0.93R5 and 0.93R6
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So we get to my point. Surely people around here read things that
aren't on the *Officially Sanctioned Cyberpunk Reading List*. Surely
we don't (any of us) really believe that there is some big, deep
political and philosophical message in all this, do we? So if this
`cyberpunk' thing is just a term of convenience, how can somebody
sell out? If cyberpunk is just a word we use to describe a
particular style and imagery in sf, how can it be dead? Where are
the profound statements that the `Movement' is or was trying to make?
I think most of us are interested in examining and discussing
literary (and musical) works that possess a certain stylistic
excellence and perhaps a rather extreme perspective; this is what CP
is all about, no? Maybe there should be a newsgroup like, say,
alt.postmodern or somthing. Something less restrictive in scope than
alt.cyberpunk. Jeff G. Bone
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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