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they should just bite the bullet.they should just bite the bullet.Posted Feb 19, 2007 16:30 UTC (Mon) by seyman (subscriber, #1172)In reply to: they should just bite the bullet. by drag Parent article: Fedora 7 release delayed
That and Debian has a hell of a lot more _supported_ packages in main then anything Fedora + third party repos ever had. There are currently 10241 packages in Debian testing. There are 8187 in Fedora 6 (2242 in Core, 5945, in Extras). If you add third party repos to that, I suspect that "a hell of a lot more" should be replaced by "a little bit less".
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they should just bite the bullet. Posted Feb 19, 2007 17:02 UTC (Mon) by amacater (subscriber, #790) [Link] Approximately 17769 in Debian testing (18178 if you include the contrib andnon-free repositories as well). You were saying?
they should just bite the bullet. Posted Feb 19, 2007 17:38 UTC (Mon) by seyman (subscriber, #1172) [Link] Approximately 17769 in Debian testing (18178 if you include the contrib and non-free repositories as well). You were saying? I'm saying you're counting binary packages and I'm counting source packages.
they should just bite the bullet. Posted Feb 19, 2007 17:48 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] I have 19571 packages aviable for my Debian Sid PowerPC (including debian-multimedia.org and a couple small third party repos for specific programs)
And that's powerpc.
All those are also found, of course, on x86, x86-64, and What is in Debian Main is aviable in ARM, Sparc and several other architectures.
Arm is as popular as anything nowadays, for instance. Used in things like OpenMoko and those Nokia tablets, so is Powerpc (which is possibly more popular) Wouldn't it be nice if you could have a Fedora embedded edition for those things?
Then you should also probably check out http://apt-get.org/ which has untold amounts of packages from third parties. Then you have all the odd BS people are creating for Ubuntu and Linspire's commercial desktop software integration efforts.
I am not dissing Fedora, they are a lot better then they used to be package wise. And I do not have ANY delusions over any mythical superiority of debs over rpm or anything silly like that.
But, seriously, do you want:
I know it probably will never happen, though.
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