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Here is a survey of linux distributions and the versions of OpenSC they include
| Debian woody (old stable) | does not contain OpenSC packages |
| Debian sarge (stable) | OpenSC 0.9.6 included |
| Debian sid (development) | OpenSC 0.10.1-1 included |
| Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy - in Universe) | OpenSC 0.9.6-1 included |
| Ubuntu 6.4 (Dapper - in Universe) | OpenSC 0.10.1-1 included |
| Fedora Core 3 (Fedora Extras) | OpenSC 0.9.6 included |
| Fedora Core 4 (Fedora Extras) | OpenSC 0.9.6 included |
| Fedora Core 5/devel (Fedora Extras) | OpenSC 0.10.0 included |
| Gentoo Portage | OpenSC 0.10.1 in dev-libs/opensc |
| Mandrake | OpenSC 0.8.1 in contrib |
| Novell/SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for x86 | OpenSC 0.8.0 included |
| OpenPKG | not included |
| OpenSuse 10.0 | OpenSC 0.9.6 included |
| OpenSuse 10.1 | (unrelease, guess:) OpenSC 0.9.6 included |
| OpenSuse 10.2 | (updated packages for OpenSuse 10.1/2, OpenSC 0.11.0 |
| OpenSuse (devel) | OpenSC 0.9.6 included |
| Rock Linux | OpenSC 0.9.4 included |
| Suse 9.3 | OpenSC 0.9.4 included |
| Suse 9.2 | OpenSC 0.8.1 included |
| Suse 9.1 | OpenSC 0.8.0 included |
ATrpms lists some RPM based distributions.
Other operating systems:
| NetBSD | included in pkgsrc-wip for testing |
| FreeBSD | OpenSC 0.9.4 included |
| OpenBSD | not included |
| fink / Mac OS X | not included |
| DragonFlyBSD | included in pkgsrc-wip for testing |