NDLI: From Toy Story to Toy History: a deep analysis of Debian GNU/Linux

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From Toy Story to Toy History: a deep analysis of Debian GNU/Linux

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Robles, Gregorio
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	The Debian operating system is one of the more popular GNU/Linux distributions today. From its birth, one decade ago, it has undergone many technical, structural and organizational changes. This article tries to study the evolution of Debian in the last five years, comparing the last the four stable versions of this distribution in size, programming languages and packages. Also the evolution of the number of voluntary developers (maintainers) in the Debian project is analyzed and an estimation of the effort is made in human and economic terms that would be necessary to produce a software of this size. The main evidences that we have found are that Debian approximately doubles to the size in lines of code and number of packages every two years, whereas the mean value of the packages’ sizes remain constant. A great majority of the packages of the first version considered in this study “have survived” in time and are present in more modern versions of Debian, many of them even with the same version number. The most widely used programming language is C, although its importance is decreasing with time. At last, the results of the evolution of Debian during these last five years are used to make a prediction of how the next stable version of Debian could be, when it cuold be shipped and what challenges (limiting factors) it will have to surpass.
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Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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