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! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
