A tale of three distributions [LWN.net]

A tale of three distributions

Posted Jun 9, 2005 12:58 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
Parent article: A tale of two distributions

Here's what I see on my Ubuntu Hoary system (the current Ubuntu release).

Package         Debian 3.1              Fedora Core 4   Ubuntu 5.04
Kernel          2.4.27 / 2.6.8          2.6.11          2.6.10 / 2.6.11
GNOME           2.8                     2.10            2.10.1
KDE             3.3                     3.4             3.4
X               XFree86 4.3.0           Xorg 6.8.2      Xorg 6.8.2
gcc             3.3.5                   4.0             3.3.5 / 4.0
postgresql      7.4.7                   8.0.2           7.4.7
MySQL           4.0.24 / 4.1.11a        4.1.11          4.0.23 / 4.1.10a

Package         Debian 3.1              Fedora Core 4   Ubuntu 5.04
xine-ui         0.99.3                  --              -- / 0.99.3
monotone        0.18                    --              -- / 0.18
gforge          3.1                     --              -- / 3.1
shorewall       2.2.3                   --              2.0.13
GNUStep         3                       --              3
xfce            4.0.5                   --              -- / 3.8.18 / 4.2.1.1

When I wrote "-- / x.y.z", I meant that there was no package in the official, supported Ubuntu repository, but that version x.y.z was available in the official but unsupported repository. When I wrote "a.b.c / x.y.z", I meant that version a.b.c was the default version, but that version x.y.z was available (either supported or unsupported). One exception is monotone -- it is not available in either the supported or unsupported official repositories, but it is available from an independent repository.

This release of Ubuntu is numbered 5.04 because it was released in the fourth month of 2005.

Regards,

Zooko

P.S. This would have looked a lot nicer and taken me a lot less time to prepare if lwn.net allowed <table>s in comments.

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