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 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! You can do that in Debian as well. That doesn't mean it's a good idea or that those packages are part of the distribution, though. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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