Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I visited Distrowatch.com and read the writeup on Debian GNU/Linux. I was surprised to see this: "Debian comes with over 20,000 packages" on Distrowatch and "Debian comes with over 29000 packages" at intro/about when the upcoming Wheezy release release notes show "This new release of Debian again comes with a lot more software than its predecessor squeeze; the distribution includes over 12800 new packages, for a total of over 37493 packages.". There's also no mention of another great feature of Debian GNU/Linux, the APT package management system which makes managing hundreds or thousands of packages on thousands of computers as easy as managing software on one. To the extent that more people using Debian GNU/Linux will make the world a better place, I suggest these features not be "undersold". I propose this wording for that paragraph, "Of course, the thing that people want is application software: programs to help them get what they want to do done, from editing documents to running a business to playing games to writing more software. Debian comes with over 37000 packages (precompiled software that is bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine) and a package manager (APT) and other utilities that allow a user to manage thousands of packages on thousands of computers as easy as installing a single application. All of this is free." -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.8.7 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
