GNU a2ps is an Any to PostScript filter.  Of course it processes
plain text files, but also pretty prints quite a few popular
programming languages.  Also contained in this package is psutils, a
collection of programs for manipulating PostScript files.
a2ps is used by Apsfilter, so be sure to install this package if you
plan to do any printing.

Sets up the empty directory tree for Slackware and adds an email to
root's mailbox welcoming them to Linux. :)  This package should be
installed first, and never uninstalled.

This is a collection of shared libraries needed to run Linux programs.
ELF (Executable and Linking Format) is the standard Linux binary 
format.  These libraries are gathered from other Slackware packages
and are intended to give a fairly complete initial set of libraries.
This package should be not upgraded or reinstalled (it could copy
over newer library versions).

This is a starter set of files from the terminfo database, which
should be enough in most cases.  The complete set (from which this
is derived) can be found in the ncurses package.
The terminfo database describes the characteristics of terminals, so
don't try to log in without this package.  :-)

                                     __111llvl+' __...._   +1lv11=.
AA-lib is an ASCII art graphics     _11vllvlv+  =vlvlvl1=  /1vlvv1i=_
library.  Internally, the AA-lib   _vvllvlvlv=  -+vlvlvlvlvlvlvlvdvl=_
API is similar to other graphics  _:lvlvlvlvlv=.     --^-^1lvlvlrlvv1s
libraries, but it renders the     =llvlvvlvlvv11lvl=....   -lvlevlvlvv
the output into ASCII art (like   =lvlvlvlvll-^+1vv11111v_  vlkllvllvl
the example to the right :^)      =lvlvlvlvl1   +1vv1v1lv  _llvlvlvlvl
The developers of AA-lib are       +1lv |vlvl'    -^-^-   _1olvlvlvlv'
Jan Hubicka, Thomas A. K. Kjaer,   -1vl |lvlvlvlvlvlvlvlvv1vlvlvlvlv+.
Tim Newsome, and Kamil Toman.        +1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^vlv-
                                      -+uvlvlvlvlvlvlvlvlvlvlvlvl+_
                                         -vlvlvlvlvlvlvlvllvlvl-'

This package contains a set of tools and libraries for manipulating
POSIX Access Control Lists.  POSIX Access Control Lists (defined in
POSIX 1003.1e draft standard 17) are used to define more fine-grained
discretionary access rights for files and directories.

Most modern computers support the Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface (ACPI) standard to allow intelligent power management.
This package contains acpid, which is the user-space daemon needed in
order to make the Linux ACPI support completely functional.
ACPI must be compiled into the kernel to run acpid.

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI
functionality to the Linux operating system.  This is the ALSA library
(libasound) which is used by audio applications.
For more information, see http://alsa-project.org

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI
functionality to the Linux operating system.  This package contains
  alsactl        (manage soundcard settings)
  arecord/aplay  (capture and play audio)
  amixer         (adjust mixer settings from the command line)
  alsamixer      (an ncurses-based console mixer)
For more information, see http://alsa-project.org

apmd is an APM monitoring daemon, and works in conjunction with the
APM BIOS driver in the kernel.  Apmd (and the included tools) handle
tasks such as automatically putting a laptop into suspend when the
power level drop below a certain point.  This package also includes
the graphical power management tools xapm and xbattery.
The apmd tools were written by Rik Faith and are maintained by
Avery Pennarun.  xbattery was written by Nathan Sidwell.

appres is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a
free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system
portability layer to as many operating systems as possible.

The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a
free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system
portability layer to as many operating systems as possible.
This package contains additional utility interfaces for APR;
including support for XML, LDAP, database interfaces, URI parsing,
and more.

aRts is the core sound system for KDE, and is short for "analog
realtime synthesizer".  aRts is designed to create or process sound
using small specialized modules.  These may create a waveform, play
samples, filter data, add signals, perform effects (like delay,
flanger or chorus), or output the data to the soundcard.

A lightweight (92K) Bourne compatible shell.  Great for machines with
low memory, but does not provide all the extras of shells like bash,
tcsh, and zsh.  Runs most shell scripts compatible with the Bourne
shell.  Note that under Linux, most scripts seem to use at least some
bash-specific syntax.  The Slackware setup scripts are a notable
exception, since ash is the shell used on the install disks.  NetBSD
uses ash as its /bin/sh.

at and batch read shell commands from standard input (or a specified
file) storing them as a job to be scheduled for execution at a later
time.
The 'at' command was written by David Parsons and Thomas Koenig.

atk is a library of accessibility functions that is used by the
GTK+-2 toolkit.

This package contains a set of tools for manipulating extended
attributes (name:value pairs associated permanently with files and
directories) on filesystem objects, and the library and header files
needed to develop programs which make use of extended attributes.
Extended attributes are used to provide additional functionality to
a filesystem.  For example, Access Control Lists (ACLs) are
implemented using extended attributes.

Audiofile is a library to handle various audio file formats, and is
used by the esound daemon.  You can also use it to develop your own
audiofile applications.

This is a program for adjusting audio mixers from the command line or
scripts, or interactively at the console or a terminal with a 
full-screen, ncurses-based interface or a GTK-based X interface.

GNU autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell
scripts to automatically configure software source code packages.
These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like
systems without manual user intervention.  Autoconf creates a
configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the
operating system features that the package can use, in the form of m4
macro calls.  You must install the "m4" package to be able to use
autoconf.

This is Automake, a Makefile generator.  It was inspired by the 4.4BSD
make and include files, but aims to be portable and to conform to the
GNU standards for Makefile variables and targets.  Automake is a Perl
script.  The input files are called Makefile.am.  The output files are
called Makefile.in; they are intended for use with Autoconf.  Automake
requires certain things to be done in your configure.in.  You must
install the "m4" and "perl" packages to be able to use automake.

The GNU Bourne-Again SHell.  Bash is a sh-compatible command
interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or
from a file.  Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn
and C shells (ksh and csh).  Bash is ultimately intended to be a
conformant implementation of the IEEE Posix Shell and Tools
specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).
Bash must be present for the system to boot properly.

bc is an arbitrary precision numeric processing language.  Syntax is
similar to C, but differs in many substantial areas.  It supports
interactive execution of statements.  bc is a utility included in the
POSIX P1003.2/D11 draft standard.
The GNU version of bc was written by Philip A. Nelson.

bdftopcf is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

beforelight is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Comsat is the server process which receives reports of incoming mail
and notifies users if they have requested this service.  "biff" is
the program that requests comsat service "biff y", and may be placed
in a user's startup file if they'd like to hear a beep and trash
their console with each new piece of junk mail.  ;-)
Biff was the name of Heidi Stettner's dog, who barked when the
mailman came.  Biff was well known to many of the early BSD developers
living in Evans Hall at U.C. Berkeley.

bigreqsproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

The bin package is a collection of miscellaneous command-line 
utilities.  Some of these (such as 'tempfile') are used in system
scripts.

This is a complete 8086 assembler and loader which can make 32-bit
code for the 386+ processors.  In the past it was used to compile the
16-bit bootsector and setup binaries for the kernel, but modern
(2.4.x or newer) kernels use GNU ld instead.
The bin86 package is needed to compile 2.2.x or earlier kernels.

The named daemon and support utilities such as dig, host, and
nslookup.  Sample configuration files for running a simple caching
nameserver are included.  Documentation for advanced name server
setup can be found in /usr/doc/bind-9.x.x/.

Binutils is a collection of binary utilities.  It includes "as" (the 
portable GNU assembler), "ld" (the GNU linker), and other utilities
for creating and working with binary programs.
These utilities are REQUIRED to compile C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran,
and most other programming languages.

GNU "Bison" is a general-purpose parser generator that converts a
grammar description for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a C
program to parse that grammar.
 all properly-written Yacc
grammars ought to work with Bison with no change.  Anyone familiar
with Yacc should be able to use Bison with little trouble.

bitmap is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Blackbox is that fast, light window manager you have been looking for
without all those annoying library dependencies.
Also included in this package is the bbkeys utility for controlling
keyboard shortcut commands from within Blackbox.
The Blackbox home page is http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net

The bluez-firmware package contains firmware needed by various
chipsets to support Bluetooth(TM) on Linux.
 http://www.bluez.org

The bluez-hcidump package contains a network analyzer for
Bluetooth(TM).  The hcidump utility reads raw HCI data coming from and
going to a Bluetooth device and prints commands, events and data.
 http://www.bluez.org

The bluez-libs package contains an implementation of the Bluetooth(TM)
wireless standards specifications for Linux.
 http://www.bluez.org

The bluez-utils package contains utilities for supporting
Bluetooth(TM) on Linux.
 http://www.bluez.org

This is an enhanced version of the CMU BOOTP server which was derived
from the original BOOTP server created by Bill Croft at Stanford.
BOOTP allows a network administrator to setup networking information
for clients via an /etc/bootptab on a server so that the clients can
automatically get their networking information.

This package contains utilities for configuring Linux Ethernet
bridges.  The Linux Ethernet bridge can be used for connecting
multiple Ethernet devices together.  The connecting is fully
transparent.  Hosts connected to one Ethernet device see hosts
connected through a bridge to the other Ethernet devices directly.
bridge-utils was written by Stephen Hemminger and Lennert Buytenhek.

The finger displays information about the system users.  Finger
displays the user's login name, real name, terminal name and write
status (as a ``*'' after the terminal name if write permission is
denied), idle time, login time, office location and office phone
number.
As fingerd leaks semi-private information about your machine's
usernames and other data, fingerd should be used with caution.
Allow machines on a need-to-know basis.

Bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text
compression algorithm, and Huffman coding.  Compression is generally
considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-
based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of
statistical compressors. 
Julian Seward  is the author of bzip2.

Cairo is a vector graphics library designed to provide high-quality
display and print output. Cairo is designed to produce
identical output on all output media while taking advantage of display
hardware acceleration when available (eg. through the X Render
Extension or OpenGL).

Cdparanoia is a Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA) extraction tool,
commonly known on the net as a 'ripper'.  It reads digital audio data
from a Compact Disc and saves it to sound files.  Cdparanoia has been
designed to read correct audio data even using cheap CDROM drives
prone to misalignment, frame jitter and loss of streaming.
Cdparanoia will also read and repair data from CDs that have been
damaged in some way.

cdrdao burns proper disc-at-once (DAO) audio discs.  In DAO mode the
disc is written in one shot, so you don't have to have irritating 2
second gaps interrupting a live recording.

Tools for mastering and writing compact discs.
cdda2wav -- CD audio sampling utility.
cdrecord -- burn discs in most ATAPI and SCSI CD-R drives.
mkisofs  -- create ISO9660/HFS/Joliet CD-ROM images.
mkzftree -- compress a file tree to make a compressed CD-ROM.

compiz is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

compositeproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

These are the GNU core utilities, the basic command line programs
such as 'mkdir', 'ls', and 'rm' that are needed for the system to
run.  This package is the union of the GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and
textutils packages.  Most of these programs have significant
advantages over their Unix counterparts, such as greater speed,
additional options, and fewer arbitrary limits.

This is GNU cpio, a program to manage archives of files. This package
also includes mt, a tape drive control program. cpio copies files into
or out of a cpio or tar archive, which is a file that contains other
files plus information about them, such as their pathname, owner,
timestamps, and access permissions. The archive can be another file on
the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe.

The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for
UNIX(R)-like operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software
Products to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors
and users.  CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the
basis for managing print jobs and queues.  The CUPS package includes
System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces, a PostScript RIP
package for supporting non-PostScript printer drivers, and tools for
creating additional printer drivers and other CUPS services.

Curl is a command line tool for transferring data specified with URL
syntax.  The command is designed to work without user interaction or
any kind of interactivity.   Curl offers a busload of useful tricks
like proxy support, user authentication, ftp upload, HTTP post,  SSL
(https:) connections, cookies, file transfer resume and more.
libcurl is a library that Curl uses to do its job. It is readily
available to be used by your software, too.

CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions
of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why
changes occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS.  It handles multiple
developers, multiple directories, triggers to enable/log/control
various operations, and can work over a wide area network.
 Dick Grune,
Brian Berliner, Jeff Polk, and others too numerous to mention.

This package contains the shared libraries needed to run dynamically
linked C++ binaries linked with older versions of libstdc++.

This is the Cyrus SASL library.  Cyrus SASL is used by mail programs 
on the client or server side to provide authentication and
authorization services.  See RFC 2222 for more information.

damageproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

D-Bus supplies both a system daemon (for events such as "new hardware
device added" or "printer queue changed") and a per user login
session daemon (for general IPC needs among user applications).
Also, the message bus is built on top of a general one-to-one message
passing framework, which can be used by any two apps to communicate
directly (without going through the message bus daemon). 

This package includes the glib bindings for the dbus IPC library.

This package contains the qt3 bindings for the D-Bus IPC suite.

The cron daemon runs in the background and executes tasks on behalf of
users at the appropriate time.  Many timed system tasks are started
with cron, such as the nightly indexing with updatedb.
dcron was written entirely from scratch by Matthew Dillon.

The DejaVu fonts are a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts
(http://gnome.org/fonts/). Its purpose is to provide a wider range
of characters (see http://dejavu.sf.net for more information) while
maintaining the original look and feel.
DejaVu fonts are based on Bitstream Vera fonts version 1.10.

 validates a desktop file and prints
  warnings/errors about spec violations.
 installs a desktop file to the applications
  directory, optionally munging it a bit in transit.
 loads .vfolder-info and .menu files and does
  operations on them.

The goal of device-mapper is to support volume management.  The
driver enables the definition of new block devices composed of
ranges of sectors of existing devices.  This can be used to define
disk partitions or logical volumes.
device-mapper is required by LVM2, the Logical Volume Manager.

This package creates special files in the /dev directory that 
represent your system's hardware, and a tool (/dev/MAKEDEV) for
creating new device files.  These files are required to access
hardware on a Linux system.

This package provides the ISC's DHCP utilities, including both a
server and client.  The DHCP protocol allows a host to contact a
central server which maintains a list of IP addresses which may be
assigned on one or more subnets.   A DHCP client may request an
address from this pool, and then use it temporarily for communication
on the network.   The DHCP protocol also provides a mechanism whereby
a client can learn important details about the network to which it is
attached, such as the location of a default router or name server.

The DHCP client program dhcpcd is used to connect to a network by
contacting a DHCP server.  dhcpcd gets an IP address and other
information from a corresponding DHCP server, configures the network
interface automatically, and tries to renew the lease time according
to RFC2131 or RFC1541 depending on the command line option.

Dialog is a program to present a variety of questions or display
messages using dialog boxes from a shell script.  The Slackware
package management script "pkgtool" uses this, as do various other
menu-driven console scripts.
Dialog was originally contributed to Slackware by Savio Lam, and has
been contributed to by many.  Dialog is currently maintained by
Thomas E. Dickey.

DiffStat is a simple filter that reads the output of the 'diff'
program and displays a histogram of insertions, deletions, and
modifications per-file.  It is useful for reviewing large, complex
patch files.
Thomas E. Dickey is the author of DiffStat.

The GNU diff utilities finds differences between files.  A major use
for this package is to make source code patches.

dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI table (some say
SMBIOS) contents in a human-readable format.  This table contains a
description of the system's hardware components, as well as other
useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS
revision.
dmidecode was written by Alan Cox and Jean Delvare.

dmxproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP
server.  It is designed to provide DNS (and optionally DHCP) to a
small network, and can serve the names of local machines which are not
in the global DNS. 
Dnsmasq was written by Simon Kelley.

an x86/DOS emulator with sound/graphics that uses the SDL-library.
DOSBox emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, Directory
FileSystem/XMS/EMS, Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA graphics,
SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card.

Utilities for creating FAT filesystems (mkdosfs), and for checking
and repairing them (dosfsck).

A collection of tools to master DVD+RW/+R/-R/-RW media.  For further
information see http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/.
The DVD+RW tools were written by Andy Polyakov.

Utilities needed to create and maintain ext2 and ext3 filesystems.
These utilities were written by Remy Card (the developer and
maintainer of the ext2 fs) and Theodore T'so.

GNU ed is an 8-bit clean, more or less POSIX-compliant implementation
of the standard Unix line editor.  These days, full-screen editors
have rendered 'ed' mostly of historical interest.  Nonetheless, it
appeals to a handful of aging programmers who still believe that
"Small is Beautiful".

editres is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Eject allows removable media (typically a DVD, CD, floppy disk, tape,
etc.) to be ejected under software control.  The command can also
control some multi-disc changers, the auto-eject feature supported by
some devices, and can close the disc tray of some drives.
The 'eject' program was written by Jeff Tranter.

Elvis is a text editor.  It is intended to be a modern replacement
for the classic ex/vi editor of UNIX fame.  Elvis supports many new
features, including multiple edit buffers, multiple windows, and a
variety of display modes.
As elvis is Slackware's default vi, this is a required package.

encodings is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

EsounD, the Enlightened Sound Daemon, is a server process that mixes
several audio streams for playback by a single audio device. For
example, if you're listening to music on a CD and you receive a
sound-related event from ICQ, the two applications won't have to
jockey for the use of your sound card.  Install esound if you'd like
to let sound applications share your audio device.

ESP Ghostscript is a customized version of GNU Ghostscript, an
interpreter of Adobe Systems' PostScript(tm) and Portable Document
Format (PDF) languages.  Ghostscript is an essential part of the
printing subsystem, taking PostScript output from applications and
converting it into an appropriate printer or display format.
Ghostscript supports many printers directly, and more are supported
through gimp-print and HPIJS, which are add-on packages that work
with Ghostscript's IJS driver.

System configuration files.  The /etc directory is traditionally the
location where configuration files are found.

ethtool is a small utility for examining and tuning your Ethernet
based network interface.  For more details, see "man ethtool".
ethtool was written by David Miller, with help from Jakub Jelinek,
Jeff Garzik, Tim Hockin, Eli Kupermann, Chris Leech, Scott Feldman,
and Andi Kleen.

evieext is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark.
Expat is a stream-oriented XML parser used by Python, GNOME, Xft2,
and other things.

fetchmail is a mail retrieval and forwarding utility.  It fetches
mail from a POP, IMAP, or ETRN-capable remote mailserver and forwards
it to your local (client) machine's delivery system.  You can then
handle the retrieved mail using normal mail user agents such as elm,
pine, or mutt.  The fetchmail utility can be run in a daemon mode to
repeatedly poll one or more systems at a specified interval.
fetchmail is probably not secure.

This package contains the GNU find and xargs programs.  The find and
xargs implementations comply with POSIX 1003.2.  They also support
some additional options, some borrowed from Unix and some unique to
GNU.

fixesproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified,
FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless.  "Free" means that the
specification of the stream format is in the public domain, and that
neither the FLAC format nor any of the implemented encoding/decoding
methods are covered by any patent. It also means that the sources for
libFLAC and libFLAC++ are available under the LGPL and the sources for
flac, metaflac, and the plugins are available under the GPL.
FLAC was developed by Josh Coalson.

flex is a tool for generating programs that perform pattern matching
on text.  flex is a rewrite of the AT&T Unix lex tool (the two
implementations do not share any code, though), with some extensions
(and incompatibilities).

Contains fdutils-5.4, tools to test and format floppy disks; and
mtools-3.9.8, a collection of utilities for using DOS/Windows floppy
disks with Linux.

Fluxbox is yet another windowmanager for X that is based on blackbox
but with many new features.

font-adobe-100dpi is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-adobe-75dpi is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-adobe-utopia-100dpi is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-adobe-utopia-75dpi is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-adobe-utopia-type1 is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-alias is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-arabic-misc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-bh-100dpi is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-bh-75dpi is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-bh-ttf is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-bh-type1 is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-bitstream-100dpi is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-bitstream-75dpi is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-bitstream-speedo is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-bitstream-type1 is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-cronyx-cyrillic is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-cursor-misc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-daewoo-misc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-dec-misc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-ibm-type1 is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-isas-misc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-jis-misc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-micro-misc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-misc-cyrillic is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-misc-ethiopic is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-misc-meltho is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-misc-misc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-mutt-misc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-schumacher-misc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-screen-cyrillic is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-sony-misc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-sun-misc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-util is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-winitzki-cyrillic is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

font-xfree86-type1 is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

fontcacheproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Fontconfig is a library and tools designed to provide system-wide
font configuration, customization, and application access.
Fontconfig is written and maintained by Keith Packard.

fontsproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

fonttosfnt is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering
engine.  It has been developed to provide TrueType support to a
great variety of platforms and environments.

This library implements the Unicode BiDirectional algorithm which is
needed in order to support for left-to-right languages such as Arabic
and Hebrew.  It is used in word processing and display software like
AbiWord and KDE's SVG module.

fslsfonts is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

fstobdf is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Fvwm is the classic highly-configurable virtual window manager for
X11.  It is a derivative of twm, redesigned to minimize memory
consumption, provide a 3-D look to window frames, and provide a simple
virtual desktop.

Gamin is a file and directory monitoring system defined to be a subset
of the FAM (File Alteration Monitor) system.
 http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/ 

Gawk is the GNU Project's implementation of the AWK programming
language.  It conforms to the definition of the language in the POSIX
1003.2 Command Language And Utilities Standard.  This version in turn
is based on the description in The AWK Programming Language, by Aho,
Kernighan, and Weinberger, with the additional features found in the
System V Release 4 version of UNIX awk.  Gawk also provides more
recent Bell Labs awk extensions, and some GNU-specific extensions.

GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection.
This package contains those parts of the compiler collection needed to
compile C code.  Other packages add C++, Fortran, Objective-C, and
Java support to the compiler core.

C++ support for the GNU Compiler Collection.
This package contains those parts of the compiler collection needed to
compile C++ code.  The base gcc package is also required.

gccmakedep is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

gd is a graphics library.  It allows your code to quickly draw images
complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from
other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a PNG or
JPEG file.  This is particularly useful in web applications, where
PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images by
most browsers.
The gd library was written by Thomas Boutell.

GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on 
inside another program while it executes -- or what another program
was doing at the moment it crashed.  GDB can do four main kinds of
  1) Start your program,
specifying anything that might affect its behavior.  2) Make your
program stop on specified conditions.  3) Examine what has happened,
when your program has stopped.  4) Change things in your program, so
you can experiment with correcting the effects of one bug and go on
to learn about another.  The program being debugged can be written in
Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Pascal and many other languages.

GNU dbm is a set of database routines that work similar to the
standard UNIX dbm routines.

getmail is a POP3 mail retriever, with support for both ordinary and
domain (or multidrop) POP3 mailboxes.  It is written in Python, and
licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.
getmail was written by Charles Cazabon.

The GNU gettext package contains "gettext" and "ngettext", programs
that are used to internationalize the messages given by shell scripts.

The GNU gettext-tools package is useful for authors and maintainers of
internationalized software, or for anyone compiling programs that
use the gettext functions.  This package provides the needed tools and
library functions for the handling of messages in different languages.
Some other GNU packages use the gettext program (included in this
package) to internationalize the messages given by shell scripts.

These fonts are used by the GhostScript interpreter.

Gimp-Print is the print facility for the Gimp, and in addition a suite
of drivers that may be used with common UNIX spooling systems using
Ghostscript or CUPS.  These drivers provide printing quality for Linux
in many cases equal to or better than proprietary vendor-supplied
drivers, and can be used for many of the most demanding printing
tasks.

Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an
unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations
and full access to internals.
"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.
Git was originally written by Linus Torvalds and is currently
maintained by Junio C. Hamano.

GLib is a library which includes support routines for C such as lists,
trees, hashes, memory allocation, and many other things.
GLib is required by nearly everything that uses GTK+ version 1.x.

GLib is a library which includes support routines for C such as lists,
trees, hashes, memory allocation, and many other things.

This package contains the GNU C libraries and header files.  The GNU
C library was written originally by Roland McGrath, and is currently
maintained by Ulrich Drepper.  Some parts of the library were
contributed or worked on by other people.
You'll need this package to compile programs.

This package contains the shared libraries, binaries, and support
files required to run most Linux applications linked with glibc.

This package allows you to configure your time zone.
This timezone database comes from the tzdata and tzcode packages by
Arthur David Olson et.al.  The latest version and more information
may be found at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
Use the timeconfig utility to set your local time zone.

glproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

GMime is a set of utilities for parsing and creating messages using
the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) as defined by many
Internet RFCs.
Jeffrey Stedfast is the author of GMime.

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage.  It can
be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures.  It includes
an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed
OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440.

This is a TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0 and SSL (Secure Sockets
Layer) 3.0 implementation.  In brief, GnuTLS can be described as a
library which offers an API to access secure communication protocols.
These protocols provide privacy over insecure lines, and were designed
to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/

The general purpose mouse server, or gpm, allows you to use the mouse
to cut and paste text from the screen.  It also acts as a mouse 
server for applications running on the Linux console, such as the
Midnight Commander file manager. 
 This program may cause problems when you start X on systems 
that do not use a serial mouse.  If you get an 'unable to open mouse 
device' error from X, disable /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm.

This is GNU grep, the "fastest grep in the west" (we hope).  Grep
searches through textual input for lines which contain a match to a
specified pattern and then prints the matching lines.

The GNU groff package provides versions of troff, nroff, eqn, tbl, and 
other Unix text-formatting utilities.  Groff is used to 'compile' man
pages stored in groff/nroff format into a form which can be printed or
displayed on the screen.  These man pages are stored in compressed
form in the /usr/man/man? directories.

GTK+, which stands for the Gimp ToolKit, is a library for creating
graphical user interfaces for the X Window System.
This library has been largely replaced by GTK+ version 2, but there
are still some good programs that require it.

This is GTK+, a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces.  Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for
projects ranging from small one-off projects to complete application
suites.

gv is a PostScript and PDF previewer.  It allows users to view and
navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by 
providing a user interface for the ghostscript interpreter.
gv was written by Johannes Plass, using the source code for Tim
Theisen's ghostview 1.5 as a starting point.

Xine is a free multimedia player.  It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs,
multimedia files, and multimedia streamed over a network.
The gxine package contains a GTK+ graphical user interface for the
Xine multimedia player.

Gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding
(LZ77).  Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the
extension .gz, while keeping the same ownership modes, access and
modification times.

hdparm provides a command line interface to various hard disk ioctls
supported by the Linux ATA/IDE device driver subsystem.  This may be
required to enable higher-performing disk modes.
hdparm was written by Mark Lord.

Apache is an HTTP server designed as a plug-in replacement for the
NCSA HTTP server.  It fixes numerous bugs in the NCSA server and
includes many frequently requested new features, and has an API which
allows it to be extended to meet users' needs more easily.
Apache is the most popular web server in the known universe; over
half of the servers on the Internet are running Apache or one of
its variants.

iceauth is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Icmpinfo is a tool for looking at the ICMP messages received on the
running host.  It can be used to detect and record attack attempts, as
well as help diagnose network problems.
icmpinfo was written by Laurent Demailly.

ico is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

imake is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

/usr/sbin/ipop3d and /usr/sbin/imapd are servers supporting the POP3
and IMAP remote mail access protocols.  They allow users to download
mail from your Linux system for remote viewing.

Imlib is a display depth-independent image loading and rendering
library.  Imlib is designed to simplify and speed up the process of
loading images and obtaining X Window System drawables.  Imlib
provides many simple manipulation routines which can be used for
common operations.

GNU indent changes the appearance of a C program by inserting or
deleting whitespace according to a plethora of options.  Some canned
styles of formatting (like the GNU style, Kernighan & Ritchie style,
and original Berkeley style) are supported as well.
GNU indent is a descendant of BSD indent.

This is a program to listen for connections on certain Internet
sockets and invokes a program to service the request.  Essentially,
inetd allows running one daemon to invoke several others, reducing
load on the system.  Many of the network services are run through
inetd, so you'll probably need it.
This version of inetd was ported from OpenBSD.

zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, MSDOS,
OS/2, Windows NT, Minix, Atari and Macintosh, Amiga and Acorn RISC OS.
It is analogous to a combination of the UNIX commands tar(1) and
compress(1) and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katz's ZIP).  A
companion program (unzip(1L)), unpacks zip archives.

inputproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

These are tools used to administer many advanced IP routing features
in the kernel.  See Configure.help in the kernel documentation 
(search for iproute2) for more information on which kernel options
these tools are used with.

These utilities were written by Alexey Kuznetsov.  The current
maintainer of iproute2 is Stephen Hemminger.

iptables is a packet filter administration tool. 
Iptables can be used to build internet firewalls based on stateless
and stateful packet filtering, use NAT and masquerading for sharing
internet access if you don't have enough public IP addresses, use NAT
to implement transparent proxies, aid the tc and iproute2 systems
used to build sophisticated QoS and policy routers, do further packet
manipulation (mangling) like altering the TOS/DSCP/ECN bits of the IP
 http://www.netfilter.org

IPTraf is a console-based network monitoring program for Linux that
  Current TCP connections, types of IP packets, packet and byte
  counts, TCP/UDP counts by ports, packet counts by packet sizes,
  packet and byte counts by IP address, interface activity, flag
  statuses on TCP packets, and other LAN station statistics.
iptraf was written by Gerard Paul Java.

The iputils package contains network tools found on nearly all *NIX
systems, along with an extra or two.  Some of the utilities found
here include arping, clockdiff, ping, ping6, rarpd, rdisc, tracepath,
tracepath6, and traceroute6.
iputils is maintained by YOSHIFUJI Hideaki.

  jfs_debugfs - shell-type JFS file system editor.
  jfs_fsck - check and repair a JFS formatted device.
  jfs_fscklog - extract a JFS fsck service log into a file.
  jfs_logdump - dump a JFS formatted device's journal log.
  jfs_mkfs - create a JFS formatted partition.
  jfs_tune - adjust tunable file system parameters on JFS.

Version 6.0 update 1.
The J2SE(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) is intended for software
developers and vendors to redistribute with their applications.
It contains the Java virtual machine, runtime class libraries, and
Java application launcher that are necessary to run programs written
in the Java programming language.
If you need development tools, obtain the jdk from /extra, or see the
  http://java.sun.com/

K3b makes writing cds under Linux easy.  It has an easy to use
interface and supports CD burning (including on-the-fly), copying,
erasing, ripping, and more.
K3b was written by Sebastian Trueg, Thomas Froescher,
Christian Kvasny, and Klaus-Dieter Krannich.
 http://www.k3b.org

Load and save keyboard mappings.  Needed if you are not using the US
keyboard map.  This package also contains utilities to change your
console fonts - if you install it you'll get a menu later on that lets
you select from many different fonts.  If you like one, you can make
it your default font.  A new default font can be chosen at any time by
typing 'setconsolefont'.

kbproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Italian language support for KDE.

KDE system administration tools.

Core applications for the K Desktop Environment.

 kdvi (displays TeX's device
independent .dvi files), kfax (displays fax files), kfract (a fractal
generator), kghostview (displays postscript .ps files), kpaint (a
simple drawing program), kruler (an onscreen ruler), ksnapshot (a
screenshot utility), and kview (displays many graphic file formats).

System libraries and other resources required by KDE.

Multimedia applications for KDE.

Network related utilities for the K Desktop Environment.

This package includes various utilities for KDE.

QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator using dynamic translation to
achieve good emulation speed.
The QEMU Accelerator Module increases the speed of QEMU when a PC is
emulated on a PC. It runs most of the target application code directly
on the host processor to achieve near native performance.
With the QEMU Accelerator Module, QEMU's speed can be compared to
other commercial or free PC Virtualizers.
Home page at http://qemu.org/

The KornShell language and interactive shell were designed by
David G. Korn at AT&T Bell Laboratories.  Besides offering a powerful
interactive shell, it also offers a robust programming language with
such features as associative arrays and built in integer math
operations.  ksh is an excellent choice for system administration
scripts and for everyday interactive use.

The official site for the Korn Shell is http://www.kornshell.com/

lbxproxy is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Little cms is a small, speed optimized color management engine.
lcms was written by Marti Maria .

Less is a paginator similar to more (1), but which allows backward
movement in the file as well as forward movement. Also, less does not
have to read the entire input file before starting, so with large
input files it starts up faster than text editors like vi (1). 
Less was written by Mark Nudelman.

LessTif is the Hungry Programmers' (www.hungry.com) free clone of
Motif(R). It aims to be source compatible with OSF/Motif(R) meaning
that the same source code should compile with both and work exactly
the same.  This package contains the libraries and header files to
be able to run and compile Motif applications, along with the lesstif
version of mwm, the Motif window manager.

LHa is an archiving and compressing utility written by Tsugio Okamoto.

libFS is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libICE is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libSM is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libX11 is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXScrnSaver is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXTrap is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXau is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXaw is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXcomposite is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXcursor is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXdamage is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXdmcp is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXevie is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXext is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXfixes is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXfont is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXfontcache is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXft is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXi is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXinerama is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXmu is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXp is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXpm is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXprintAppUtil is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXprintUtil is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXrandr is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXrender is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXres is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXt is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXtst is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXv is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXvMC is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXxf86dga is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXxf86misc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libXxf86vm is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Libao is a cross-platform audio library, and is required by many
programs and other libraries that use audio (some examples include
ogg123, GAIM, and the Ogg Vorbis libraries).  This package provides
plugins for OSS, ESD, aRts, and ALSA.  You will need to install the
supporting libraries for any plugins you want to use.

Libart is a library for high-performance 2D graphics.  It is used by
both KDE and GNOME.  This is the LGPL'd component of the library.
Raph Levien  is the author of libart.

The libcaca library is a graphics library that outputs text instead
of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals.
It is not unlike the famous AAlib library.
Sam Hocevar is the main author of libcaca.

libdmx is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

This library implements an interface to the kernel's DRM services.
It is used to support hardware accelerated 3-D rendering.

EXIF stands for Exchangeable Image File Format, which is a format used
to store extra information in images such as the JPEG files produced
by digital cameras.  The libexif library allows programs such as 
gthumb to parse, edit, and save EXIF data.

libfontenc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code 
used in GnuPG. 

The GLADE library allows loading user interfaces which are stored
externally into a program.  This allows the interface to be changed
without recompiling the program.  The interfaces can also be edited
with GLADE.

This is a library that defines common error values for all GnuPG
components.  Among these are GPG, GPGSM, GPGME, GPG-Agent, 
libgcrypt, Libksba, DirMngr, Pinentry, SmartCard Daemon, and more.

libgpod for accessing iPod content. It provides an easy to use way
to retrieve the list of files and playlist stored on an iPod, to
modify them and to save them back to the iPod.
If you decide to make improvements please contact us so we can work
 Gtkpod-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
(you may ask to be CC in the answer).

libgsf aims to provide an efficient extensible I/O abstraction for
dealing with different structured file formats.
libgsf is used by libwv2, which is used by various word processors
to import .doc format files.

GtkHTML is a lightweight HTML rendering/printing/editing engine.  It
was originally based on KHTMLW, part of the KDE project.
libgtkhtml is used by the GIMP help browser.

libid3tag is a library for reading and (eventually) writing ID3 tags,
both ID3v1 and the various versions of ID3v2.
libid3tag was written by Robert Leslie.

libIDL is a library licensed under the GNU LGPL for creating trees of
CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) files, which is a
specification for defining portable interfaces.
libIDL is used by SeaMonkey and the Mozilla Suite.

GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA
specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names
(IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names.

This library is intended to be used by applications that need to
communicate with (or at least identify) devices that are attached via
a parallel port.  For example, SANE uses it to identify scanners.

Software to implement JPEG image compression and decompression.  JPEG
(pronounced 'jay-peg') is a standardized compression method for
full-color and gray-scale images.  JPEG is intended for compressing
'real-world' scenes; cartoons and other non-realistic images are not
its strong suit.  JPEG is lossy, however, on typical images of
real-world scenes, very good compression levels can be obtained with
no visible change, and amazingly high compression levels are possible
if you can tolerate a low-quality image.

KSBA (pronounced Kasbah) is a library to make X.509 certificates as
well as the CMS easily accessible by other applications.
Both specifications are building blocks of S/MIME and TLS.

liblbxutil is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

MAD (libmad) is a high-quality MPEG audio decoder.  It currently
supports MPEG-1 and the MPEG-2 extension to Lower Sampling
Frequencies, as well as the so-called MPEG 2.5 format.  All three
audio layers (Layer I, Layer II, and Layer III a.k.a. MP3) are
fully implemented.  Because MAD provides full 24-bit PCM output,
applications using MAD are able to produce high quality audio.
MAD is distributed under the terms of the GPL.
MAD (libmad) was written by Robert Leslie.

This is libmng, the MNG reference library.  MNG (pronounced 'ming'),
is short for Multiple-image Network Graphics.  Designed with the same
modular philosophy as PNG and by many of the same people, MNG is
intended to provide a home for all of the multi-image (animation)
capabilities that have no place in PNG.  
libmng was written by Gerard Juyn.

libmtp is a library that attempts to support Microsoft's Media
Transfer Protocol (MTP).  It was initially based the great libptp2
library by Mariusz Woloszyn now maintained by Marcus Meissners, and
Hubert Figuere's libgphoto2 work based on libptp2 (or is libptp2
based on libgphoto?).  It is like a master DJ has remixed all of
these tracks and then added a new API adapted for portable media
players.  :-)
 http://libmtp.sourceforge.net

MusicBrainz is a user-maintained community music metadatabase.
The MusicBrainz client library allows applications to make metadata
lookups to a MusicBrainz server, generate signatures from WAV files
and create CD Index Disk IDs from audio CD-ROMs.
libmusicbrainz is licensed under the GPL.  Relatable has graciously
    Acoustic fingerprint technology provided by Relatable(TM),
    Copyright (c) 2000-2, Relatable LLC, All rights reserved.

libnjb is a C library and API for communicating with the Creative
Nomad JukeBox and Dell DJ digital audio players under BSD, Linux,
Mac OS X, and Windows.  The protocol these devices use is presumably
called PDE (Portable Digital Entertainment protocol) at Creative.
Newer devices using the Microsoft MTP (Media Transfer Protocol)
are NOT supported.
 http://libnjb.sourceforge.net

Libogg is a library for manipulating ogg bitstreams.  It handles
both making ogg bitstreams and getting packets from ogg bitstreams.
libogg is needed to use the Ogg Vorbis audio format.

liboldX is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is an extensible file format for the
lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images.  PNG
provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many
common uses of TIFF.  Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor images
are supported, plus an optional alpha channel.  Sample depths range
from 1 to 16 bits.

libpthread-stubs is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Library for handling SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics).

This is the GNU termcap library -- a library of C functions that
enable programs to send control strings to terminals in a way
independent of the terminal type.  Most of this package is also
distributed with GNU Emacs, but it is available in this separate
distribution to make it easier to install as -ltermcap.

Theora is Xiph.Org's first publicly released video codec, intended
for use within the Foundation's Ogg multimedia streaming system.
The Theora bitstream format was frozen after the alpha3 release. This
means that files produced by the alpha3 encoder will always be
playable according to the Theora I specification.  Traditionally
alpha means a proof of concept, not a production-ready release. 
However the code is very robust, ready for and indeed in general use.

This package provides support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF),
a widely used format for storing image data.  Included is the libtiff
library (for reading and writing TIFF files), and a collection of
tools for working with TIFF images.

This is GNU Libtool, a generic library support script. Libtool hides
the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable
interface.  To use libtool, add the new generic library building
commands to your Makefile, Makefile.in, or Makefile.am.  See the
documentation for details.
You must install the "m4" package to be able to use libtool.

The TunePimp library is a MusicBrainz enabled tagging library that
allows music files to be looked up.  Once the files have been
identified, libtunepimp writes new metadata tags to the music files
and then writes the files to a standardized directory hierarchy.
libmusicbrainz and libtunepimp are used by various media players to
identify and tag media files.

A library to load and save (uncompressed only) images using GIF,
or Graphics Interchange Format.  GIF was introduced by CompuServe
in 1987, but is still widely used today (especially on web pages.)

This is libusb, a library which allows userspace application access
to USB devices.  It is used to connect to USB devices like scanners.

Libvisual is an audio visualization library that acts as a middle
layer between audio visualization plugins and applications.  Any
application written with libvisual support included will be able to
make use of all the plugins that are written for libvisual.
Libvisual also contains a whole set of facilities to ease the
development of plugins.
Libvisual was written by Dennis Smit.

This library supports the Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec
(commonly known as Ogg Vorbis).  Ogg Vorbis is a fully open,
non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed
audio format for audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates.
The libvorbis library requires libao and libogg.  You'll find some
basic tools for creating and using Ogg Vorbis files in the
vorbis-tools package.

libwmf is a library for interpreting metafile images and either
displaying them using X or converting them to standard formats such
as PNG, JPEG, PS, EPS and SVG.

This package contains a library (libwpd) and tools to transform
WordPerfect documents into other formats such as HTML, text, and raw.
libwpd is used by word processors such as KWord.

The XCB library provides an interface to the X Window System protocol
which is fully capable of replacing Xlib.  In fact, libX11 makes use
of libxcb as much as possible.  :-)  Porting to XCB has several
advantages such as a smaller memory footprint, latency hiding, direct
protocol access, and improved thread support.

libxkbfile is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

libxkbui is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

XML parser library.

XSLT support for libxml2.  (XSLT is a language used for transforming
XML documents)

Generic Boot Loader for Linux ('LInux LOader') by Werner Almesberger.
LILO boots Linux from your hard drive. It can also boot other
operating systems such as MS-DOS and OS/2, and can even boot DOS from
the second hard drive. LILO comes with utilities and documentation
that make it easier to install, such as 'liloconfig' and 'QuickStart'.
Installing boot loaders is inherently dangerous. Be sure to have
some means to boot your system from a different media if you install
LILO on your hard disk.

listres is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

lm_sensors provides tools for monitoring the temperatures, voltages,
and fans of Linux systems with hardware monitoring devices.  Included
are text-based tools for sensor reporting, and a library for sensors
access called libsensors.  It also contains tools for sensor hardware
identification and I2C bus probing.
 If you have a Thinkpad, please read the warnings in
the README.thinkpad file.  lm_sensors has been known to cause damage
to some Thinkpads.

lndir is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

LOADLIN.EXE, a loader (running under DOS) for LINUX kernel images
fully supporting the kernel's command line feature. 
LOADLIN is the safest way to boot Linux from your hard disk, if you
have a bootable DOS partition on your machine.
LOADLIN was written by Hans Lermen (lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de)

The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration
of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files.
Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal
and mailing of log files.  Logrotate can be set to handle a log
file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain
size.  Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job.

Lsof is a Unix-specific tool.  Its name stands for "LiSt Open Files",
and it does just that.  It lists information about files that are open
by the processes running on the system.
Victor A. Abell of Purdue University is the developer of lsof.

Uses information in sysfs to list scsi devices (or hosts) currently
attached to the system.  Options can be used to control the amount
and form of information provided for each device.
lsscsi was written by Doug Gilbert.

luit is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Heinz Mauelshagen's LVM (Logical Volume Manager) for Linux.
LVM adds an additional layer between the physical peripherals and the
low-level I/O interface to get a logical view of disks.  This allows
the concatenation of several disks (so-called physical volumes or PVs)
to form a storage pool (so-called Volume Group or VG) with allocation
units called physical extents (called PE).  With LVM, you can extend,
resize, or relocate storage dynamically.

This is GNU m4, a program which copies its input to the output,
expanding macros as it goes.  m4 has built-in functions for including
named files, running commands, doing integer arithmetic, manipulating
text in various ways, recursion, etc...  Macros can also be user-
defined, and can take any number of arguments.
GNU 'm4' was originally written by Rene Seindal, from Denmark.

Mailx is derived from Berkeley Mail and is intended provide the
functionality of the POSIX mailx command with additional support
for MIME, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, and S/MIME. It provides enhanced
features for interactive use, such as caching and disconnected
operation for IMAP, message threading, scoring, and filtering.
It is also usable as a mail batch language, both for sending
and receiving mail.
The maintainer and primary developer of nail is Gunnar Ritter.

This is the GNU implementation of make, which was written by Richard
Stallman and Roland McGrath.  The purpose of the make utility is to
determine automatically which pieces of a large program need to be 
recompiled, and issue the commands to recompile them.  
This is needed to compile just about any major C program, including
the Linux kernel.

makedepend is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

The man package is a collection of tools used for searching and
reading the online system documentation.  In fact, on most UNIX-like
operating systems it is the primary means of finding out how programs
on the system work.  For example, 'man man' will display the
documentation for man itself.
Man requires the groff text processing package.

Man pages are online documentation for Linux.  This package includes
many section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 man pages for Linux.
The man-pages distribution is maintained by Andries E. Brouwer with
the help of more writers, editors, and other contributors than we can
name here.

mcs is a library and set of userland tools which abstract the
storage of configuration settings away from userland applications.
It is hoped that by using mcs, that the applications which use it
will generally have a more congruent feeling in regards to settings.
Because mcs is licenced under the BSD license, it is hoped that
many applications will adopt it's use.

Mercurial is a cross-platform, distributed source management tool for
software developers.  It is written in Python, with a binary diff
implementation written in C.  Its major features include high-
performance;  serverless, fully distributed collaborative development;
robust handling of both plain text and binary files;  advanced
branching and merging capabilities;  and full source code available
under the terms of the LGPL.
Mercurial was written by Matt Mackall and other contributors.

Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API very similar to that of
another well-known 3-D graphics library.  :-)  The Mesa libraries are
used by X to provide both software and hardware accelerated graphics.
Mesa was written by Brian Paul.

Metamail is an implementation of MIME, the Multipurpose Internet
Mail Extensions, a proposed standard for multimedia mail on the
Internet.  Metamail implements MIME, and also implements extensibility
and configuration via the "mailcap" mechanism described in an
informational RFC that is a companion to the MIME document.

mhash is a thread-safe hash library, implemented in C, and provides a
uniform interface to a large number of hash algorithms (MD5, SHA-1,
HAVAL, RIPEMD128, RIPEMD160, TIGER, GOST). These algorithms can be
used to compute checksums, message digests, and other signatures.
The HMAC support implements the basics for message authentication,
following RFC 2104.

Minicom - a full featured menu-driven communications package similar
to the DOS program 'Telix'.  Also includes sz/rz - utilities used to
upload and download files using the Zmodem protocol.

mkcomposecache is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

mkfontdir is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

mkfontscale is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

mkinitrd is a script to create an initial ramdisk that is loaded at
the same time as the kernel.  The initial ramdisk may be responsible
for loading kernel modules (such a filesystem or SCSI controller
module) that are needed to mount the root filesystem.

OSSP mm is a 2-layer abstraction library which simplifies the usage of
shared memory between forked processes.  On the first layer it hides
all platform dependent implementation details (allocation and locking)
when dealing with shared memory segments and on the second layer it
provides a high-level malloc(3)-style API to work with data inside
those shared memory segments.  Apache, PHP, and other projects use mm.
The mm library was written by Ralf S. Engelschall.

Utilities to load and unload kernel modules.  These are used on Linux
to load extra drivers or other features into the running kernel.

This project is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component written
using the XUL user interface language.  Firefox empowers you to
browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other
browser.
  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/

Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component
written using the XUL user interface language.  Thunderbird makes
emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the
industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam
filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much more.
  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point
computations with exact rounding (also called correct rounding).
It is based on the GMP multiple-precision library.
The main goal of MPFR is to provide a library for multiple-precision
floating-point computation which is both efficient and has 
well-defined semantics.  It copies the good ideas from the
ANSI/IEEE-754 standard for double-precision floating-point arithmetic
(53-bit mantissa).

The MTX program controls the robotic mechanism in autoloaders and
tape libraries such as the HP SureStore DAT 40x6, Exabyte EZ-17, and
Exabyte 220. 
This program is also reported to work with a variety of other tape
libraries and autochangers from Tandberg/Overland, Breece Hill, HP, 
Seagate, Dell and Quantum.

MySQL is a fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL
(Structured Query Language) database server.  It comes with a nice API
which makes it easy to integrate into other applications.
The home page for MySQL is http://www.mysql.com/

nano is a small, free, and friendly editor from the GNU project.  It
aims to copy Pico's look and feel while providing additional (or
disabled by default) features that are missing from Pico, such as
"search and replace" or "go to line and column number".
Chris Allegretta is Nano's author.

Netcat, or "nc" as the actual program is named, is a simple utility
which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or
UDP protocol.  It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that
can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts.
At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and
exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection
you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.
Netcat was written by *Hobbit* , and is a product
of Avian Research.

Compress reduces the size of the named files using adaptive Lempel-Ziv
coding.  Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the
extension .Z, while keeping the same ownership modes, access and
modification times.  If no files are specified, the standard input is
compressed to the standard output.  Compressed files can be restored
to their original form using uncompress or zcat.

The ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of
curses in System V Release 4.0, and more.  It uses terminfo format,
supports pads and color and multiple highlights and forms characters
and function-key mapping, and has all the other SYSV-curses
enhancements over BSD curses.

neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C language API.
Bindings for other languages may also be available, see the web site
 http://www.webdav.org/neon/
The neon library is used by projects such as subversion.

An extensible agent
An SNMP library
Tools to request or set information from SNMP agents
Tools to generate and handle SNMP traps
A version of the unix 'netstat' command using SNMP
A graphical Perl/Tk/SNMP based mib browser

This is the core collection of tools such as "ifconfig" and "route"
used to configure networking on Linux.  You won't be able to do much
networking without this package and the network-scripts.
The net-tools package was maintained for many years by Phil Blundell
and Bernd Eckenfels.

Netdate takes a list of names of Internet hosts as arguments, selects
the one which supplies the best time, and sets the system time
accordingly.  The invoker must be the super-user for the time to be
set.  Protocol names (either udp or tcp) may be interspersed with the
host names, and determine the protocol which will be used to connect
to the hosts whose names follow, up to the next protocol name or the
end of the arguments.  The default protocol is udp.
These days, "ntpdate" is probably a better choice.

This package provides rpc.bootparamd and callbootd, programs used to
provide information to diskless clients so they can boot.  It is
used primarily to allow a Linux server to boot a Sun machine using
SunOS bootparam.
netkit-bootparamd was written by Klas Heggemann.

Ftp is the user interface to the Internet standard File Transfer
Protocol.  The program allows a user to transfer files to and from a
remote network site.
This is a program of mostly historical value.  For a more powerful
command-line FTP client, look at something like lftp.

talk and talkd are the BSD communication client server system for
the command line.  "talk" is the client that asks another user to
respond; and "in.talkd" is the server that notifies a user that
someone else wants to initiate a conversation.
The talk command appeared in 4.2BSD.

Routed is invoked at boot time to manage the network routing tables.
The routing daemon uses a variant of the Xerox NS Routing Information
Protocol in maintaining up to date kernel routing table entries.
It used a generalized protocol capable of use with multiple address
types, but is currently used only for Internet routing within a
cluster of networks.
 routed is no longer maintained and may be insecure.

The old BSD rsh suite.  Note that none of these programs provide
encryption or strong authentication of network connections.  As such,
their use is discouraged.  The "ssh" protocol and package is a
cryptographically secure replacement.

The rusers command produces output similar to who, but for the list
of hosts or all machines on the local network.  For each host
responding to the rusers query, the hostname with the names of the
users currently logged on is printed on each line.  The rusers
command will wait for one minute to catch late responders.
Portmap and rpc.rusersd must be running on remote machines.  Should
probably be considered insecure (or at least ill-advised) on public
networks.

The rwall command sends a message to the users logged into the
specified host.  The message to be sent can be typed in and
terminated with EOF or it can be in a file.
Run the rpc.rwalld daemon with caution.  It may be insecure.
The rwall command appeared in SunOS.

The rwho command produces output similar to who, but for all machines
on the local network.  If no report has been received from a machine
for 11 minutes then rwho assumes the machine is down, and does not
report users last known to be logged into that machine.  If a users
hasn't typed to the system for a minute or more, then rwho reports
this idle time.  If a user hasn't typed to the system for an hour or
more, then the user will be omitted from the output of rwho unless
the -a flag is given.

This is an early BSD time server daemon.  While ntpd is better for
most purposes, this might be useful for secure networks or embedded
systems in need of something more lightweight.
The timed daemon appeared in 4.3BSD.

The netpbm package contains a library and tools for converting between
many different graphics formats.

Robert Forsman's netpipes package makes TCP/IP streams usable in shell
scripts.  It can also simplify client/server code by allowing the 
programmer to skip all the tedious programming bits related to sockets
and concentrate on writing a filter/service.  Here's an example of

server$ faucet 3000 -out tar cf - .
client$ hose server 3000 -in tar xvf -

Netwatch allows a user (superuser) to monitor activity on the network.
The monitor includes statistics on transmitted and received packets,
bytes, protocol, and more.

These are the basic scripts and files used to define a network and
configure network interfaces on Linux.  Most of the original
/etc files were written by Fred N. van Kempen, or borrowed from BSD.
The rc.inet1 and rc.inet2 scripts were mostly written by Patrick
Volkerding, with suggestions and fixes from hundreds of contributors
over the years.

Writed implements a very simple protocol that allows a write(1)
program on one host to connect up to one on another host, allowing
communications across the network.  Writed is meant to be run from
inetd(8) listening for TCP requests on port 811.  No attempt is made
to determine the authenticity of users sending messages.  This
program should probably not be deployed on insecure networks.

Newspost is a usenet binary autoposter.  It will uuencode or yencode
files and post them to usenet newsgroups.  In addition, it can
automatically generate and post .SFV checksum files and .PAR parity
files.
Newspost was mostly  written by Jim Faulkner, with some help from
William McBrine.  Portions borrowed from cksfv by Bryan Call, and
parchive by Willem Monsuwe.

The nfs-utils package contains the necessary daemons and utilities to
run an NFS server on Linux.
You'll also need the portmap package to use NFS.

Nmap ("Network Mapper") is an open source utility for network
exploration or security auditing.  It was designed to rapidly scan
large networks, although it works fine against single hosts.  Nmap
uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are
available on the network, what services (ports) they are offering,
what operating system (and OS version) they are running, what type of
packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other
characteristics.  Nmap runs on most types of computers, and both
console and graphical versions are available.

normalize is a tool for adjusting the volume of audio files to a
standard level.  This is useful for things like creating mix CDs
from mp3 collections, where different recording levels on
different albums can cause the volume to vary greatly from song
to song.  The package also contains an XMMS plugin.
Chris Vaill is the author of normalize.

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a
computer client or server to another server or reference time source,
such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. It provides client
accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens
of milliseconds on WANs relative to a primary server synchronized to
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) via a Global Positioning Service
(GPS) receiver, for example. 

This package contains some command line tools and the ObexFTP
library.  Using OpenOBEX it enables you to transfer data via IrDA,
Bluetooth, as well as some custom (Siemens, Ericsson) serial port
protocols.
ObexFTP was written by Christian W. Zuckschwerdt.
 http://triq.net/obexftp.html

oclock is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

OpenLDAP is an open source implementation of the Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol.  LDAP is a alternative to the X.500
Directory Access Protocol (DAP). It uses the TCP/IP stack versus
the overly complex OSI stack.
LDAP is often used to provide authentication (such as for email).
The OpenLDAP homepage is http://www.openldap.org/

OpenOBEX is a free open source implementation of the Object Exchange
(OBEX) protocol.  OBEX is a session protocol and can best be
described as a binary HTTP protocol.  OBEX is optimised for ad-hoc
wireless links and can be used to exchange all kinds of objects like
files, pictures, calendar entries (vCal) and business cards (vCard).
 http://www.openobex.org

ssh (Secure Shell) is a program for logging into a remote machine and
for executing commands on a remote machine.  It is intended to replace
rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between
two untrusted hosts over an insecure network.  sshd (SSH Daemon) is
the daemon program for ssh.  OpenSSH is based on the last free version
of Tatu Ylonen's SSH, further enhanced and cleaned up by Aaron
Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt, and
Dug Song.  It has a homepage at http://www.openssh.com/

The OpenSSL certificate management tool and the shared libraries that
provide various encryption and decryption algorithms and protocols.
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for
use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org).  This product
includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young
(eay@cryptsoft.com).  This product includes software written by Tim
Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).

These shared libraries provide encryption routines required by
programs such as openssh.  They are also used by KDE's Konqueror web
browser to provide secure web connections.
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for
use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org).  This product
includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young
(eay@cryptsoft.com).  This product includes software written by Tim
Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).

Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout
is needed; however, most of the work on Pango was done using the GTK+
widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text and
font handling for GTK+-2.

Patch is a utility used to apply diffs (or patches) to files, which
are usually source code.
Larry Wall wrote the original version of patch.  Paul Eggert removed
patch's arbitrary limits; added support for binary files, setting
file times, and deleting files; and made it conform better to POSIX.
Other  contributors include Wayne Davison, who added unidiff support,
and David MacKenzie, who added configuration and backup support.

lspci displays detailed information about all PCI buses and devices
in the system, replacing the original /proc/pci interface.
setpci allows reading from and writing to PCI device configuration
registers.  For example, you can adjust the latency timers with it.
See the manual pages for more details.

This package provides PCMCIA tools that replace the pcmcia-cs tools
used with the 2.4.x Linux kernel.  PCMCIA cards are commonly used
in laptops to provide expanded capabilities such as network
connections, modems, increased memory, and more.

The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular
expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as
Perl 5, with just a few differences (documented in the man page).
The PCRE library is used by KDE's Konqueror browser.

Larry Wall's "Practical Extraction and Report Language".  Perl is a
language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting
information from those text files, and printing reports based on that
information.  It's also a good language for many system management
tasks.  The language is intended to be practical (easy to use,
efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language.  It shares syntax
characteristics with C, Java, and Perl.  The primary objective behind
this language is to make a fast and easy-to-use scripting language
for dynamic web sites.
More information can be found online at http://www.php.net/

The identd daemon implements the IDENT protocol as specified in
RFC1413.  When your machine connects to a remote system, the remote
machine may connect to your identd daemon to find out either the
user name or other information about the process that initiated
the connection.  Some remote machines may choose not to allow your
connections if you do not provide access to an identd daemon.
The pidentd daemon was written by Peter Eriksson.

This is a library for communicating with Palm Computing, Inc.  Palm
Devices as well as the Handspring Visor,  TRGPro,  and other devices
which conform to this standard (PalmOS licensed devices).
pilot-link is used by KPilot.

pkg-config is a system for managing library compile/link flags
that works with automake and autoconf.  It replaces the ubiquitous
*-config scripts you may have seen with a single tool.  See the man
page that comes with pkg-config for full documentation.

This package contains utilities for handling Slackware packages.
Included are the command line utilities 'installpkg', 'removepkg',
'makepkg', 'explodepkg', and 'upgradepkg' that install, remove,
build, examine, and upgrade software packages.  Also included are 
'pkgtool', a menu based program for installing packages, removing
packages, or viewing the packages that are installed on the system,
documentation (man pages), and a few other system admin scripts.

This is PMake -- a parallel Make program originally written for the
Sprite operating system, ported from BSD Unix.  This may be useful if
you're going to port software with Makefiles designed for BSD.
PMake was written by Adam de Boor.

popa3d is a Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) server.  A POP3
server operates on local mailboxes on behalf of its remote users.
Users can connect at any time to check their mailbox and fetch the
mail that has accumulated.  The design goals of this POP3 server are
security, reliability, RFC compliance (slightly relaxed to work with
real-world POP3 clients), and high performance.
The popa3d daemon was written by Solar Designer.

Popt is a C library for parsing command line parameters.  Popt was
heavily influenced by the getopt() and getopt_long() functions, but it
improves on them by allowing more powerful argument expansion.  Popt
can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays and automatically set
variables based on command line arguments.  Popt allows command line
arguments to be aliased via configuration files and includes utility
functions for parsing arbitrary strings into argv[] arrays using
shell-like rules.

The portmapper (/sbin/rpc.portmap) is a network daemon used to manage
connections to RPC services.  Daemons that offer RPC services (such
as the daemons for NFS) tell the portmapper on what port they listen. 
Unlike the services registered with the inetd, RPC network port
numbers may change each time the system is booted.
The portmapper is required to use NFS or other RPC services.

The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) provides a method for transmitting
data over serial links.  It's commonly used for connecting to the
Internet using a modem.  This package includes the PPP daemon (pppd),
which negotiates with the peer to establish the link and sets up the
ppp network interface, and pppsetup, an easy-to-use utility for
setting up your PPP daemon.

printproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort your incoming
mail into separate folders/files (real convenient when subscribing to
one or more mailing lists or for prioritizing your mail), preprocess
your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival (e.g. to generate
different chimes on your workstation for different types of mail) or
selectively forward certain incoming mail automatically to someone.
Procmail is required by sendmail to deliver the local mail.
The author of procmail is Stephen R. van den Berg.

The procps package provides the classic set of utilities used to
display information about the processes currently running on the 
machine.

ProFTPD is the Professional File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server
daemon.  ProFTPD grew out of the desire to have a secure and
configurable FTP server, and out of a significant admiration of the
Apache web server.

proxymngr is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language that combines remarkable power with very clear syntax.  
Python's basic power can be extended with your own modules written in
C or C++.  Python is also adaptable as an extension language for
existing applications. 

QCA aims to provide a straightforward and cross-platform crypto API,
using Qt datatypes and conventions.  QCA separates the API from the
implementation, using plugins known as Providers.  The advantage of
this model is to allow applications to avoid linking to or explicitly
depending on any particular cryptographic library.  This allows one
to easily change or upgrade crypto implementations without needing
to recompile the application.
QCA was written by Justin Karneges.

This is a plugin to provide SSL/TLS capability to programs that
utilize the Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA).
The qca-tls plugin was written by Justin Karneges.

Qt is a complete and well-developed object-oriented framework for
developing graphical user interface (GUI) applications using C++.
This release is free only for development of free software for the X
Window System.  If you use Qt for developing commercial or other
non-free software, you must have a professional license.  Please see
http://www.trolltech.com/purchase.html for information on how to
obtain a professional license.

An implementation of the diskquota system for the Linux operating
system to keep those greedy users from gobbling up 100% of the hard
drive space.  Works with ext2, ext3, reiserfs, and xfs filesystems.
This system is based on the Melbourne quota system by Robert Elz.
Edvard Tuinder and Marco van Wieringen ported this code to Linux.
Jan Kara added support for the new Linux quota format and the XFS
filesystem.

randrproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

RCS, the Revision Control System, manages multiple revisions of files.
RCS can store, retrieve, log, identify, and merge revisions.  It is
useful for files that are revised frequently, e.g. programs,
documentation, graphics, and papers.

rdesktop is a client for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), used in a
number of Microsoft products including Windows NT Terminal Server,
Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 Server.
 http://www.rdesktop.org

Rdist is a remote file distribution program.  It is used to maintain
identical copies of files over multiple network hosts.  It preserves
the owner, group, mode, and mtime of files if possible and can update
programs that are executing.

The GNU Readline library provides a set of functions for use by
applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed
in.  Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available.  The Readline
library includes additional functions to maintain a list of previously
entered command lines, to recall and perhaps edit those lines, and
perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands.  

recordproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

These utilities are used for Reiserfs.  Reiserfs is a file system
http://www.namesys.com
Reiserfs is the work of Hans Reiser and many others.  See the file
/usr/doc/reiserfs*/README for full credits.

rendercheck is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

renderproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

resourceproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

rgb is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) is a protocol used by
many ADSL Internet Service Providers. Roaring Penguin has a free
client for Linux systems to connect to PPPoE service providers.
The client is a user-mode program and does not require any kernel
modifications. It is fully compliant with RFC 2516, the official
PPPoE specification.

RPM is a tool from Red Hat Software used to install and remove
packages in the .rpm format.  When installing RPM packages on
Slackware, you may need to use the --nodeps and --force options.
Before installing any binary package, it's wise to examine it to
see what it's going to do, and if it will overwrite any files.  You
can use rpm2tgz to convert .rpm packages to .tgz packages so you
can look them over.

Converts RPM format to Slackware's GNU tar + GNU zip format.  (view
converted packages with "less", install and remove with "installpkg",
"removepkg", "pkgtool", or manually with "tar").
Converted packages come with no warranty.  ;-)

rstart is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

rsync is a replacement for rcp that has many more features.  It
uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for
bringing remote files into sync.  It does this by sending just the
differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both
sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand.
rsync was written by Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras.

Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
object-oriented programming.  It has many features to process text
files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl).  It is simple,
straight-forward, and extensible.
Visit the Ruby project online at http://www.ruby-lang.org/

rxvt is a color vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm
replacement for users who do not require features such as Tektronix
4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability.  As a result, rxvt
uses much less memory -- a significant advantage on a machine serving
many X sessions.  Also included is rclock, an analog clock for X.

rzip is a file compression program designed to do particularly well
on very large files containing long distance redundancy.
rzip was written by Andrew Tridgell.

Samba is an SMB file and print server for SMB and CIFS clients.  It
allows you to make file space or printers on a Samba host available to
any PCs running SMB clients (such as PCs running Windows).
If you have any SMB servers (such as Windows NT/2K Server), you may be
able to replace them by or supplement them with Samba. One of Samba's
big strengths is integration, so you can use it to tie together your
Linux hosts and Windows PC clients.

SANE is a universal scanner interface that provides standardized
access to any raster image scanner hardware, such as flatbed scanners,
hand-held scanners, video and still cameras, frame-grabbers, and other
similar devices.

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical
terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells).
Each virtual terminal provides the functions of a DEC VT100 terminal
and several control functions from the ISO 6492 (ECMA 48, ANSI X3.64)
and ISO 2022 standards (e.g. insert/delete line and support for
multiple character sets).  There is a scrollback history buffer for
each virtual terminal and a copy-and-paste mechanism that allows
moving text regions between windows.

scripts is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

scrnsaverproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

This is the Simple DirectMedia Layer, a generic API that provides low
level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via
OpenGL, and 2D framebuffer across multiple platforms.
SDL links against alsa-lib, arts, audiofile, esound, and the X11
libraries.  Make sure all of these are installed if you're planning to
use SDL (a full installation will cover all of the prerequisites).

This is the GNU version of sed, a stream editor.  A stream editor is
used to perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file
or input from a pipeline).  It is sed's ability to filter text in a
pipeline which distinguishes it from other types of editors.
sed is a required package (it is needed by many system scripts).

Seejpeg is an image viewer which uses SVGAlib.  In spite of the name,
it understands the JPEG, GIF, PPM, BMP and TARGA formats.  One nice
feature of seejpeg is that it automatically decides on the best video
mode to use based on the image being displayed and the video card
being used.  
Evan Harris is the author of seejpeg.

Eric Allman's mail transport agent. The _Unix System Administration
Handbook_ calls sendmail 'The most complex and complete mail delivery
system in common use...'
Ready-made configuration files are included for systems connected by
TCP/IP (with or without a nameserver) and for systems using UUCP.
The procmail package is required to handle local mail delivery.

sessreg is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

setxkbmap is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

This set of login related programs utilizes an alternate, non-readable
file to contain the actual encrypted passwords.  This is presumed to 
increase system security by increasing the difficulty with which 
system crackers obtain encrypted passwords.  It was written by 
Julianne Frances Haugh and the Linux port is maintained by Tomasz
Kloczko.
This package provides 'login', which is needed to log into the system.

  The freedesktop.org shared MIME database spec.
  The merged GNOME and KDE databases, in the new format.
  The update-mime-database command, used to install new MIME data.
See http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info.html for
more information.

`shar' makes so-called shell archives out of many files, preparing
them for transmission by electronic mail services.  `unshar' helps
unpacking shell archives after reception.  `uuencode' prepares a file
for transmission over an electronic channel which ignores or otherwise
mangles the eight bit (high order bit) of bytes.  `uudecode' does the
converse transformation.  `remsync' allows for remote synchronization
of directory trees using electronic mail. 

showfont is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

S-Lang is an interpreted language that was designed from the start
to be easily embedded into a program to provide it with a powerful
extension language.  S-Lang is also a programmer's library that
permits a programmer to develop sophisticated platform-independent
software.  In addition to providing the S-Lang extension language,
the library provides facilities for screen management, keymaps,
and low-level terminal I/O.

S-Lang is an interpreted language that was designed from the start
to be easily embedded into a program to provide it with a powerful
extension language.  S-Lang is also a programmer's library that
permits a programmer to develop sophisticated platform-independent
software.  In addition to providing the S-Lang extension language,
the library provides facilities for screen management, keymaps,
and low-level terminal I/O.

Slocate is an enhanced version of locate, a command to help you locate
files on the system.  Like the original version of locate, Slocate
maintains a database of files on the system, updating it nightly.
Unlike the original, Slocate indexes every file on the machine rather
than only the ones that can be seen by everyone.  The "secure" part of
slocate is that it will only return matches if the user is allowed to
see the files.

SMARTMONTOOLS contains utilities that control and monitor storage
devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
(S.M.A.R.T.) system build into ATA and SCSI Hard Drives. This is used
to check the reliability of the hard drive and to predict drive
failures.  SMARTMONTOOLS Version 5.x is designed to comply to the
ATA/ATAPI-5 specification (Revision 1).  Future releases of
SMARTMONTOOLS (Versions 6.x and 7.x) will comply with the ATA/ATAPI-6
and ATA/ATAPI-7 specifications.

smproxy is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Sox is a universal sound converter, player, and recorder.  It can
play, record, and convert between several sound file formats such as
.au, .snd, .voc and .wav.

This program splits the screen into two windows, one above the other,
and runs a shell in each one.
Splitvt was written by Sam Lantinga.

Adds support for applications to use "busy" cursors while starting up.

Strace allows you to trace the execution of a command.  It runs the
specified command until it exits, intercepting signals and system
calls and dumping the information to the standard error.  System
administrators, diagnosticians and trouble-shooters will find it
invaluable for solving problems with programs for which the source
is not readily available since they do not need to be recompiled in
order to trace them.  

The stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper
between remote client and local (inetd-startable) or remote servers.
The goal is to facilitate SSL encryption and authentication for
non-SSL-aware programs.
stunnel can be used to add SSL functionality to commonly used inetd
daemons like POP-2, POP-3 and IMAP servers without any changes in the
programs' code.

Subversion is a version control system which allows you to keep old
versions of files and directories (usually source code), and keep a
log of who, when, and why changes occurred, similar to other such
systems like CVS, RCS or SCCS.  Subversion keeps all the information
to permit extracting previous versions of those files at any time.
  http://subversion.tigris.org

'sudo' is a command that allows users to execute some commands as 
root.  The /etc/sudoers file (edited with 'visudo') specifies which
users have access to sudo and which commands they can run.  'sudo' 
logs all its activities to /var/log/ so the system administrator
can keep an eye on things.

This is a low level graphics library for Linux, originally based on
VGAlib 1.2 by Tommy Frandsen.  Support for many more chipsets has
been added.
This version of svgalib requires a kernel module (svgalib_helper),
which is separately packaged in "svgalib_helper".
svgalib is currently maintained by Matan Ziv-Av.

The purpose of this package is to provide a set of utilities for
interfacing with sysfs, a virtual filesystem in Linux kernel versions
2.6+ that provides a tree of system devices.  While a filesystem is a
very useful interface, a library (libsysfs) is also included that
will hopefully make it easier for applications to query system
devices and their attributes.

Dr. Greg Wettstein and Stephen Tweedie's syslogd/klogd.
This package contains a modified version of syslogd for the Linux
environment.  An additional utility, klogd, is included which allows
kernel logging to be directed through the syslogd facility.
Syslogd and klogd are started when your system boots.

SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system which
operates off an MS-DOS/Windows FAT filesystem.  This is used by the
Slackware makebootdisk script to create system boot floppies.
Also included are PXELINUX and ISOLINUX, boot loaders for booting from
a network server or CD-ROM.
SYSLINUX, PXELINUX, and ISOLINUX were written by H. Peter Anvin.

The sysstat utilities are a collection of performance monitoring
tools for Linux.  These include sar, sadf, mpstat, iostat and sa
tools.
The sysstat utilities were written by Sebastien Godard.

System V style init programs by Miquel van Smoorenburg that control
the booting and shutdown of your system.  These support a number of
system runlevels, each with a specific set of utilities spawned.
For example, the normal system runlevel is 3, which starts agetty
on virtual consoles tty1 - tty6.  Runlevel 4 starts xdm.
Runlevel 0 shuts the system down.

This is the /etc/init.d/functions file, the typical sysvinit-style
directories, and a few supporting binaries.  Using this system,
subdirectories of /etc/rc.d/ are searched for scripts (which are
usually symlinks to the script in /etc/init.d/ or /etc/rc.d/init.d/).
The links must start with S to start a script or K to stop (kill) it.
For the most part, these are useful for running software developed
for other versions of Linux.

These are the Slackware boot scripts, which are needed to start the
machine.  Sysvinit looks for these in /etc/rc.d/.

t1lib is a library distributed under the GNU General Public Library
License for generating character and string glyphs from Adobe Type 1
fonts under UNIX.  t1lib uses most of the code of the X11 rasterizer
donated by IBM to the X11 project.

TagLib is a library for reading and editing the meta-data of several
popular audio formats.  Currently it supports both ID3v1 and ID3v2
for MP3 files, Ogg Vorbis comments and ID3 tags and Vorbis comments
in FLAC files.

This is the GNU version of tar, an archiving program designed to store
and extract files from an archive file known as a tarfile.  A tarfile
may be made on a tape drive, however, it is also common to write a
tarfile to a normal file.
Slackware's package system uses tarfiles compressed with GNU gzip.

With this package you can monitor and filter incoming requests for
network services for access control, and detection things like host
name spoofing and host address spoofing.  Nearly all the network
daemons on Slackware are "wrapped" using this library, and most
daemons in /etc/inetd.conf use tcp_wrappers' tcpd wrapper daemon.
If you plan to do much networking, you will need tcp_wrappers.
tcp_wrappers was written by Wietse Venema.

Tcpdump is a tool for network monitoring and data acquisition.  You
can use it to dump information on all the packets on a network that
match a boolean expression.  Tcpdump uses libpcap, a system
independent interface for user-level packet capture.

telnet supports the original DARPA telnet interactive communication
protocol.  As connecting to a telnetd server transmits your password
over the network in cleartext, telnet's use as a login protocol has
been mostly superceded by the use of ssh and sshd.  However, the
telnet client is still a very handy tool, and telnetd may still have
some uses on networks that are known to be secure.
telnet and telnetd were ported from BSD.

'Texinfo' is a documentation system that uses a single source file to
produce both on-line information and printed output.  Using Texinfo,
you can create a printed document with the normal features of a book,
including chapters, sections, cross references, and indices.  From the
same Texinfo source file, you can create a menu-driven, on-line Info
file with nodes, menus, cross references, and indices.
This package is needed to read the documentation files in /usr/info.

The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is normally used only for
booting diskless workstations (or the Slackware installer).  The tftp
package provides the user interface for TFTP, which allows users to
transfer files to and from a remote machine.  This program and TFTP
provide very little security, and should not be enabled unless it is
expressly needed.
tftp-hpa is maintained by H. Peter Anvin.

The `time' command runs another program, then displays information
about the resources used by that program, collected by the system
while the program was running. 
GNU time was originally written by David Keppel, with later versions
worked on by David MacKenzie, Arne Henrik Juul, and Francois Pinard.

The traceroute utility displays the route used by IP packets on their
way to a specified network host.  Traceroute will display the IP
number and host name (if possible) of all the machines along the route
taken by the packets.  If you're having network connectivity problems,
traceroute can show you where the trouble is located.

trapproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Tree is a recursive directory listing program that produces a depth
indented listing of files, which is colorized ala dircolors if the
LS_COLORS environment variable is set and output is to tty.  With no
arguments, tree lists the files in the current directory.
The tree utility was written by Steve Baker.

This is a collection of free fonts that support some of the more
widely used Indic scripts.  Included are TTF fonts for Bengali,
Devanagari, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil,
and Telugu.
For more information about enabling full Indic support (this package
will enable display, but probably not input), see the
Indic-Fonts-HOWTO which can be found in /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs.

twm is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

udev provides a dynamic device directory containing only the files
for the devices which are actually present.  It creates or removes
device node files usually located in the /dev directory.
udev requires a 2.6 or newer kernel.
Kay Sievers is the udev maintainer.

This is a simple command-line tool for decompressing .arj files.
Thanks to Haruhiko Okumura and ARJ Software, Inc. for providing this
source code free of charge.
UNARJ software and manual copyright (c) 1990-2002 ARJ Software, Inc.
All rights reserved.

lsusb displays detailed information about all USB buses and devices
in the system.
usbmodules lists the kernel modules for a plugged in USB device.
See the manual pages for more details.

The utempter package provides a utility and shared library that
allows terminal applications such as xterm and screen to update
/var/run/utmp and /var/log/wtmp without requiring root privileges.

The util-linux package is a huge collection of random utilities that
are essential to run a Linux system.  This package includes the
util-linux package from ftp.kernel.org, plus some related programs
from other sources such as adjtimex, bsdstrings, net-tools (only for
'hostname', a complete version is in the tcpip package), schedutils,
setserial, and ziptool.

util-macros is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

videoproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

viewres is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor vi.  Many new
 multi level undo, command line history, 
filename completion, block operations, and more.
Vim's development is led by Bram Moolenaar.
This package also contains the Exuberant Ctags program
written by Darren Hiebert.

The vlan package contains the vconfig program, which allows you to
create and remove VLAN devices on a VLAN enabled kernel.  VLAN
devices are virtual Ethernet devices which represent virtual LANs on
the physical LAN.
vlan is primarily the work of Alex Zeffertt, Cambridge Broadband Ltd,
extensively rewritten by Ben Greear.

The vorbis-tools package contains several basic tools for working with
  oggenc (an .ogg encoder), ogg123 (a playback tool), vorbiscomment
  (add comments to vorbis files), ogginfo (show information about an
  ogg file), oggdec (a command line decoder), and vcut (a tool for
  splitting vorbis files).
These tools require the libao, libogg, and libvorbis libraries.

VTE is a terminal emulator widget for use with GTK+.  This package
contains the VTE library and development files and a sample
implementation (vte).
VTE is used by XFce.

GNU Wget is a free network utility to retrieve files from the 
World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet
protocols.  It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the
background after having logged off.
The author of Wget is Hrvoje Niksic .

GNU 'which' takes one or more arguments.  For each of its arguments it
prints to stdout the full path of the executables that would have been
executed when this argument had been entered at the shell prompt.  It
does this by searching for an executable or script in the directories
listed in the environment variable PATH using the same algorithm as
bash(1).  'Which' is a built-in function in many shells.
The GNU version of which was written by Carlo Wood.

This is an enhanced whois (RFC 954) client derived from the BSD and
RIPE whois programs.  It can automatically select the appropriate
whois server for most queries.
This version of whois was written by Marco d'Itri
 http://www.linux.it/~md/software/

Window Maker is a window manager for the X Window System that is
relatively fast and small, feature rich, easy to use, with a simple
and elegant appearance reminiscent of the NeXTSTEP(tm) graphical
user interface.
Window Maker is part of the official GNU project.

This package contains tools and a library used for configuring
  iwconfig (the main wireless tool),  iwlist (display more detailed
  information than iwconfig),  iwspy (get stats per MAC address and
  more),  iwpriv (set driver private ioctls),  iwgetid (show the
  ESSID or NWID of a device),  iwevent (display wireless events),
  ifrename (rename a network interface).
The wireless-tools were written by Jean Tourrilhes.

wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux with support for
WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the
IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations.
It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it
controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/association
of the wlan driver.
http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/

wv2 is a portable MS Word .doc import filter that is used by KWord.
Currently, it supports MS Word 6, MS Word 95, MS Word 97, MS Word
2000, and MS Word 2002 (XP) documents.  Older versions like Word 2, 3,
4, and 5 aren't supported yet, but might be in the future.
wv2's authors are Shaheed Haque, Werner Trobin, and David Faure.

These are some symlinks needed by X11 after moving some files and
directories to conform with the Linux FHS.  For example, the fonts
are now in the /usr/share/fonts directory, and this package makes
a symlink to there from /usr/lib/X11/fonts (the default location).
An /etc/xdg directory (the default for XDG_CONFIG_DIRS in the
XDG Base Directory Specification) is also contained in this package,
as well as sample xorg.conf files and other scripts.

x11perf is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xauth is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

Xaw3d is a set of 3D widgets by Kaleb S. Keithley based on the Athena
Widget set.  The Three-D Athena may be used as a replacement for the
Athena (Xaw) Widget set -- you may relink almost any Athena Widget
based application and obtain a three dimensional appearance on some of
the widgets.  You can also replace your shared libXaw with libXaw3d
and obtain the three dimensional appearance without even relinking.

xbiff is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xbitmaps is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xcalc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xcb-proto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xclipboard is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xclock is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xcmiscproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xcmsdb is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xconsole is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xcursor-themes is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xcursorgen is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xdbedizzy is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xditview is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xdm is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xdpyinfo is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xdriinfo is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xedit is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xev is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xextproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xeyes is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-acecad is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-aiptek is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-calcomp is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-digitaledge is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-elographics is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-evdev is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-fpit is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-hyperpen is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-jamstudio is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-joystick is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-keyboard is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-magellan is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-magictouch is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-mouse is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-mutouch is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-palmax is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-spaceorb is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-summa is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-tek4957 is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-ur98 is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-vmmouse is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-input-void is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-apm is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-ark is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-ast is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-ati is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-chips is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-cirrus is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-cyrix is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-dummy is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-fbdev is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-glint is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-i128 is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-i740 is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-i810 is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-imstt is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-intel is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-mga is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-neomagic is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-newport is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-nsc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-nv is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-rendition is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-s3 is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-s3virge is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-savage is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-siliconmotion is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-sis is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-sisusb is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-tdfx is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-tga is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-trident is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-tseng is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-v4l is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-vesa is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-vga is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-via is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-vmware is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86-video-voodoo is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86bigfontproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86dga is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86dgaproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86driproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86miscproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86rushproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xf86vidmodeproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

XFce is a fast and lightweight desktop environment that is both
visually appealing and easy to use.
 http://www.xfce.org
XFce was developed by Olivier Fourdan.

xfd is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xfindproxy is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xfontsel is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xfs is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

The xfsdump package contains the xfsdump and xfsrestore utilities for
backing up and restoring XFS partitions.  xfsdump examines files in a
filesystem, determines which need to be backed up, and copies those
files to a specified disk, tape or other storage medium.  xfsrestore
performs the inverse function of xfsdump; it can restore a full
or incremental backup of a filesystem.

xfsinfo is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated
on the SGI IRIX platform.  It is completely multi-threaded, can
support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes,
variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of
Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance
and scalability.

xfwp is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xgamma is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xgc is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xhost is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xine-lib is a free (GPL licensed) high-performance multimedia
playback engine.  The xine shared libraries are used by xine-ui (and
other media players and multimedia applications) for smooth video
processing and playback of multimedia streams such as movies, radio
and TV network streams, DVDs, and VCDs.

Xine is a free multimedia player.  It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs,
multimedia files, and multimedia streamed over a network.
The xine-ui package contains the graphical user interface for the
xine multimedia player.

xineramaproto is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xinit is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xkbcomp is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xkbevd is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xkbprint is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xkbutils is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xkeyboard-config is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xkill is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org

xload is part of X11.
For more information about the X.Org Foundation (the providers of the
http://www.x.org