Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey relationship

Posted by BernardSwiss on Nov 22, 2011 8:05 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By John Timmer
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You'll frequently hear references to a "software ecosystem" on various platforms, but it's relatively rare to see someone take that sort of terminology seriously. A group of evolutionary biologists, however, has now used the tools of ecosystem analysis to look at the evolution of Debian releases, examining things like package dependencies and software incompatibility.

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