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