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[Geoffrey]

Brian Pitts wrote:
> On 02/17/2010 09:22 AM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>> Can someone run me through what the current situation is w.r.t. Red Hat 
>> and Red-Hat-derived distributions and package repositories?  I am seeing 
>> situations where people seem to go "RPM fishing" from the Internet's 
>> hinterlands and others seem to have to add this or that repository to a 
>> list in order to obtain such-and-such a package via yum.
> 
> RHEL provides (and hence supports) a relatively small number of packages.
> 
> # lsb_release -d && yum list all | wc -l
> Description:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)
> 6476

With the addition of epel repository to RHEL I get: 9462

> 
> Fedora provides a lot more.
> 
> $ lsb_release -d && yum list all | wc -l
> Description:	Fedora release 12 (Constantine)
> 27151
> 
> There are various efforts to provide additional packages for RHEL.
> There's a good overview on the CentOS wiki. [0]
> 
> Since Fedora has a stringent free software licensing policy (the only
> non-free software allowed is firmware), their 27,000 packages exclude
> some software that some people find useful. The main effort to provide
> that software for Fedora is RPM Fusion. [1]
> 
> [0] http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
> [1] http://rpmfusion.org/
> 


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Until later, Geoffrey

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