Re: Re: most popular Python projects -summary

Mats Wichmann <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:41:02 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.marketing.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 10:35 AM 3/25/2004, Dean Goodmanson wrote:
 >> RedHat and Debian Linux distributions include Python
 >
 >> and RedHat uses Python extensively and some Python
 >> projects are also included with the distributions.
 >
 >There's also Gentoo and Knoppix.  I don't have exact
 >details at this time, but I believe Gentoo uses Python
 >as a core tool in it's build-it-yourself system
 >(portage?) and Knoppix includes Python under the
 >Developer Tools.

There's lots of stuff like this going on.  Fedora
(descendant of the Red Hat consumer releases) uses
the yum tool as a package installation frontend;
yum (Yellowdog Updater Modified) is written in
Python so it's an essential tool there (and for
Yellowdog Linux, too of course).