Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 04/25/2011 05:32 PM, Piscium wrote:
> Debian has an advantage on number of packages available. Debian claims
> on its website to have 30 K packages. And this is on Fedora:
>
> [xx at d3000 ~]$ yum repolist
> Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto
> Adding en_IE to language list
> repo id                   repo name                                     status
> adobe-linux-i386          Adobe Systems Incorporated                          18
> fedora                    Fedora 14 - i386                              17,880+3
> rpmfusion-free            RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Free                    364
> rpmfusion-free-updates    RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Free - Updates          504
> rpmfusion-nonfree         RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Nonfree                 176
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 14 - Nonfree - Updates       267
> updates                   Fedora 14 - i386 - Updates                       6,346
> repolist: 25,555
>
> The total of 25 K is misleading as some packages are counted twice, so
> the Fedora total is probably around 20-22 K. Also there are other
> repos that I have not enabled, such as Atrpms.

This isn't really a good comparison as the same command in my Fedora 15
installation, gives me

repolist: 29,883

Raw count is a fairly meaningless measure.   What would be interesting
is to talk about what software if any that you use on a regular basis is
missing from the Fedora (+ popular third party repos)

Rahul