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Re: Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison



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
baloo@ursine.ca

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