[SLL] most used open source software?

[Robert Woodcock]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 08:08:12AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Can anyone point me to surveys from Debian, Red Hat, or others to help 
> figure out most used software?

Debian has popularity-contest (http://popcon.debian.org/). The results are
skewed by:

1. Scripts running via cron or init automatically
2. Some packages getting installed automatically with every Debian system
3. It being opt-in (although there are roughly 80000 submitters)

#1 is the killer - it's hard to tell, but I think almost all of the top
1000 packages (by vote) are there because some file in the package gets run
automatically.
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