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On June 6, 2005, the Debian Project announced the official release of the Debian GNU/Linux version 3.1, codenamed" Sarge", after almost three years of development [6]. The Debian distribution is produced by the Debian project, a group of nearly 1,400 volunteers (aka maintainers) whose main task is to adapt and package all the software included in the distribution [11]. Debian maintainers package software which they obtain from the original (upstream) authors, ensuring that it works smoothly with the rest of the programs in the Debian system. To ensure this, there is a set of rules that a package should comply with, known as the Debian Policy Manual [5]. Debian 3.1 includes all the major libre software packages available at the time of its release. In its main distribution alone, composed entirely of libre software (according to Debian Free Software Guidelines), there are more than 8,600 source packages. The whole release comprises almost 15,300 binary packages, which users can install easily from various media or via the Internet. In this paper we analyse the system, showing its size and comparing it to other contemporary GNU/Linux systems1. We decided to write this paper as an update of Counting Potatoes (see [8]), and Measuring Woody (see [1]) which were prompted by previous Debian releases. The paper is structured as follows. The first section briefly presents the methods we used for collecting the data used in this paper. Later, we present the results of our Debian 3.1 count (including total counts, counts by language, counts for the largest packages, etc.). The following section provides some comments on these figures and how they …