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On 4/9/07, Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> wrote: > That set of commands would simply count the number of software packages > /installed locally/, not the total number available. You'd want to count > packages found by dselect/apt-get against yum. And then you'd have to take > into account weather you're comparing the as-shipped configuration vs. > allowing one to twiddle with apt-sources / yum.conf. Yes, I made a mistake in the command mentioned. However, supported packages by Ubuntu is definitely far greater than say RHEL. Here is Ubuntu Feisty versus CentOS 4.4. I did not add any unsupported Ubuntu repositories, so it should not affect the calculation. If someone has FC6/FC7 installed, let me know what you get. Obviously, some consideration needs to be had for meta-packages and virtual packages... $ aptitude search ~n | wc -l 23489 # yum list | wc -l 1649 > I don't have a ubuntu box to check, but I highly doubt that your claim above > regarding 'most binary packages' is true. Even if it is, I'd be extremely > surprised if the difference is significant (or more than a matter of choice of > packaging; ie using several small packages instead of one big one for the same > software). Actually, I am fairly confident in my claim. That's partially why I switched away from Red Hat years ago. I urge someone to prove me wrong here. I would hypothesize that only Gentoo has more packages, since it is a from-source distro. > Getting a bit off topic (debian vs. ubuntu), but since you brought rpm-based > distros into the discussion, things like frequency scaling and hw auto config > are all available (and configured by default) in Fedora as well (and yes, > there's a Live CD; maybe not as polished as Ubuntu's though, since it's > relatively new). I would imagine that pretty much any modern distro does that > stuff. Yes, modern distros do, however, I filed a bug a little over a year ago because Debian Etch did not! http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/09/msg00425.html Ubuntu has a new GUI installer which is much easier for newbies to use. That's why I recommend it to people starting out. In the server version, the install is identical to Debian, so there should be no surprises there for seasoned veterans... -- Kristian Hermansen -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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