Re: Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison
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)?
>
> 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.
>
I've read that using Slackware, one can install .rpm, .deb, .gtz, .tz
etc. In few words, more packages!
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