On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:09:24 -0500, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Simon writes:
>> I am just curious which distribution have the most packaged Open
>> Source software.
> That's hard to say. Debian probably has the most packages, but Debian
> packages are also more "fine grained" than many: Debian packages
> seperately pieces of software that others clump together. Probably
> the best statistic for this comparison, depending on your purpose,
> would be total number of lines of source code.
Count source packages. That gets away from distro specific
slicing and dicing of packages, and better represents the effort taken
to package software.
I still think that Debian is ahead by source package count, but
I do not have concrete data, off hand.
manoj
--
Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux (Unknown source)
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/>
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
