The OSWatershed.org project
The OSWatershed.org project
[Distributions] Posted Jul 20, 2009 20:30 UTC (Mon) by corbet
Scott Shawcroft has announced the OSWatershed.org project.
"OpenSourceWatershed is a project aimed at understanding the
relationship between distributions (downstream) and the individual software
components (upstream). It is the basis for a larger study of distributions
and their evolution.
" He concludes that Arch Linux tends to be the
least "obsolete," in that only 45% of its packages are behind the leading
edge. Debian and openSUSE, instead, are said to be 95% obsolete. The
slides from his OSCON talk [PDF] are also available.