Distrowatch rates us #5!!!!

iplayfast · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 6:18 pm Post subject: Distrowatch rates us #5!!!!

The home page (dated June 10) says Distrowatch rates gentoo as one of the top 10. well I looked today and it's number 5.
Absolutly amazing!

#1 Mandrake
#2 Redhat
#3 Debian
#4 Suse
#5 Gentoo
#6 Slackware

After looking at what's included it's even more amazing, in that gentoo has more packages then every other top 5 distro (from eyeballing) and the packages are more recent. Yes this is bleeding edge. (I didn't know, it didn't feel that way!

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Just thought this was too cool to not post on.

delta407 · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 6:20 pm Post subject:

Moving to In Other News, as that's where the other distrowatch-related thread is.
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abhishek · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 8:12 pm Post subject:

i thiink debian has more packages then us(10k in unstable), but ours are way newer.

chrb · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 19

That "over 10k" is for binary packages. They still have six thousand odd source packages though. hmm gentoo seems to have about 2500 packages .. plus the several hundred new ebuilds waiting on the bugs site.