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How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?

How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?

Posted Jun 1, 2011 6:06 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux? by pr1268
Parent article: How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?

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)


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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

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