On 9/20/07, Pascal Bleser
[2] http://packman.links2linux.org
All in all, 14000 binary packages is probably a pretty accurate estimation.
Just a note as well that comparing physical amount of packages between distributions in a typical way might not be so meaningful because of the different packaging methods. openSUSE packaging did (particularly in the past) tend to be a lot more modular. For example in KDE3 while we have kdebase3, in Ubuntu/Debian they have kdebase, kate, kfind, kcontrol, khelpcenter, kwrite, kwin packages etc etc ...for the same one package that we would have. So frequently people get the impression that Debian-based distributions have thousands of thousands more applications because of what Synaptic and Adept tells them (in contrast to YaST), but it's not so clear-cut. A more interesting comparison might be the amount of bin/* files. Source packages is interesting too. As for learning about the community -- why not join us for a while and see what it's like? :-) Getting involved in other communities is not nearly as difficult as you would think (for example, anyone can get an openSUSE build service account straight away), and it's the best way to get a real idea of things, especially if you're willing to investigate with the tools around etc. :-) Kind thoughts, -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org