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From: Paul Johnson on 17 Jun 2008 20:10
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 15:08 -0700, consultores wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 09:47 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 17:58 +0200, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote:
> >
> > > I am just curious which distribution have the most packaged Open Source
> > > software. It seems to me this is Debian? Is there a good comparison
> > > (numbers, statistics, etc)?
> >
> > Debian, by a long shot. 26,000 packages. Next closest competitor
> > (Ubuntu) has 23,000. Most (all?) of the RPM-based distributions are
> > below 10,000.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions#Features
> >
> > This isn't really much surprise, though. RPM distributions have been
> > rather incomplete compared to the Debian ones for over a decade now.
> >
>
> I've read that using Slackware, one can install .rpm, .deb, .gtz, .tz
> etc. In few words, more packages!

You can do that in Debian as well. That doesn't mean it's a good idea
or that those packages are part of the distribution, though.

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From: Steve Lamb on 17 Jun 2008 20:10
On Tue, June 17, 2008 4:23 pm, consultores wrote:
> OK, BTW, Are free source all the packages included in Debian? What about
> SeLinux?

... this is Debian you're talking about.

http://www.debian.org/social_contract

#2 of the DSFG:

Source Code

The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source
code as well as compiled form.


That's why on any Debian repository if you append -src to the deb
portion of your apt sources file you'll get the SouRCe code.

eg:
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especially
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

# Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free


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From: John Hasler on 17 Jun 2008 20:20
consultores writes:
> OK, BTW, Are free source all the packages included in Debian?

Are you asking if Debian makes the source for all the packages in Main
available? Of course! Otherwise it wouldn't be Free Software!

> What about SeLinux?

SELinux is an integral part of the Linux kernel, and yes, of course source
is available.
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From: al davis on 17 Jun 2008 21:10
On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Steve Lamb wrote:
> The program must include source code, and must allow
> distribution in source code as well as compiled form.


but there is the "non-free" section, which includes some
closed-source products that are proprietary in every way. I
see license statements like "Use is limited to non-profit
applications or evaluation purposes.". ..... "Make it clear
that this is a Freeware Light edition of a commercial product,
and as such may only be used for non-commercial or evaluation
purposes."

-- crippled demo ...


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From: John Hasler on 17 Jun 2008 21:40
al davis writes:
> but there is the "non-free" section

Which is officially not part of Debian.
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