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How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?Posted Jun 1, 2011 5:55 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)Parent article: How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?
Just curious, would these percentages be noticeably different for other distros, e.g. RH/Fedora/CentOS, Debian1, [Open]SUSE, or Slackware? 1 I realize that Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian, but in seven years of existence, I suppose by now Ubuntu has started to blaze its own trail and dissociate from its parent distro (someone correct me if this isn't the case).
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How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux? Posted Jun 1, 2011 6:06 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
I would expect that for debian and Fedora the percentage of 'other' would be much higher, simply because there is so much more software in the main repository (almost none of which is part of the GNU project)
I think SUSE has more packages than were considered for Ubuntu
I would be interested to see what the slackware numbers looked like. given that it's a smaller distro (and the size of the GNU components andthe kernel are pretty much fixed) the percentage would probably be a bit higher for both GNU and the kernel.
or you could look at embedded distros, and find that the GNU contribution fades significantly (they frequently use different libc and compiler options)
How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux? Posted Jun 1, 2011 10:11 UTC (Wed) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]
openSUSE nowadays has roughly the same amount of packages as Fedora or Debian
How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux? Posted Jun 1, 2011 7:36 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
Ubuntu actively syncs packages with Debian. There are some diffs even in the core packages, but they are not that big. But then again, what was he checking: Ubuntu Main or Main+Universe? (I suppose that the sizes of Restricted and Multiverse are, in LOC, rather small, so they don't really matter). Main+Universe is roughly comparable to Debian's Main. I suspect (though didn't really check) that there is a higher ratio of GNU programs in the core (Ubuntu's Main) than in the peripherials.
If I'm right, you'll find a higher ration of GNU code in RHEL/Centos than in Fedora (of a "comparable generation"), and likewise in SLES compared to openSUSE (Did I get the names right?).
How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux? Posted Jun 1, 2011 8:46 UTC (Wed) by patrick_g (subscriber, #44470) [Link] >>>what was he checking: Ubuntu Main or Main+Universe?Extract from the article: "I (..) am considering only the main repository"
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