Linux Packages

Steve Carter

Take Your Pick Server or Workstation Supported Components

6000 packages to choose from! Which One?

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Distrowatch Top 10 Distributions

(19th Sept 2006) 1. Ubuntu 2. Mandriva Linux 3. SUSE LINUX 4. Fedora Core 5. Debian GNU/Linux

6. Knoppix 7. MEPIS Linux 8. Gentoo Linux 9. Slackware Linux 10. Xandros

Desktop

Ladislaw Bodnar

Czechoslovakian-born South African living in Taiwan

The site is… Hyperlink heaven Describes 200 distros Adds 2 per week Try “Corel linux” search Try * in distro name

Packages tracked by Distrowatch

Packages tracked by Distrowatch About 200 About 50 main ones listed per distro

Main ones discussed here

AbiWord http://www.abisource.com/ Low MSWord compatibility

Imports .doc files Cannot export .doc format

Linux

Windows

Screenshots

ALSA http://www.alsa-project.org/ Advanced Linux Sound

Architecture Drivers Programmable (API) Supports SMP

Linux Sound Support Kernel Support is built-in OSS Open Sound System

Commercial $20 US

ALSA

Apache http://www.apache.org/ THE Web Server A.k.a. httpd in some lists

Autoconf Gnu’s Not Unix Auto configures

packages Needs GNU m4

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html

Bash Command Line Interpreter Bash Shell

Creates shell scripts Combines elements

Korn (ksh) C shell (csh)

IEEE POSIX compliant

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain Domain Name System (DNS)

Domain Name System server (named) Domain Name System resolver library tools for verifying the proper operation of

the DNS server Example

64.37.137.83 = www.sony.com

http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/

bzip2 File Compressor File Decompressor

http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/

CDrecord Burns CD’s

Music, Data, CD Stuff.

CUPS Common UNIX Printing System Needed for printing

Needs compatible Ghostscript for printing Postscript or pdf files

http://www.cups.org/

fetchmail Mail retrieval and forwarding

http://www.tuxedo.org/%7eesr/fetchmail/

Galeon Gnome WEB BROWSER

Based on Gecko Requires

Gnome + Mozilla

http://galeon.sourceforge.net/

GCC GNU Compiler Collection

Formerly GNU C compiler

Front End Supports C, C++, Objective C, Java, Fortran,

Ada

http://gcc.gnu.org/

The GIMP Professional level Graphics

Program

Glade Graphical User

Interface builder works with GTK+ works with GNOME

Creates C code works with C++, Ada95, Python, Perl

Finished Example

Glibc GNU C library

http://www.gnu.org/directory/glibc.html

Command line C Programming Library

GNOME Free and Easy Desktop

Environment Another part of the GNU Hurd Simplified v.2 recently released Comprises

Desktop Development Environment Office Suite

www.gnome.org

Spreadsheet Comms Vector Graphics Raster Graphics Plotting Project

Management Presentation

WP Browser Image Viewer Email/Groupware Diagramming Finance Database

Vector Graphics Sodipodi Sketch

Raster Graphics Gimp

Plotting Guppi

Presentation Agnubis

WP AbiWord

Image Viewer Eye of Gnome

Diagramming Dia (structured,

like Visio)

1/3

Spreadsheet Gnumeric

Comms Gfax

Project Management Mr Project Toutdoux

Browser Galeon

Email/Groupware Balso Evolution

Finance GnuCash

Database Gnome-DB

2/3

Coming Soon…. under the same Gnome umbrella

SUNs Open Office Opencalc Spreadsheet OpenDraw Vector Graphics OpenWriter Word Processor Impress Presentations

3/3

Gnumeric Excel Workalike 95% of Excel Funtions

no VB macros pdf export filter

GTK+ GUI Toolkit Three libraries

Glib (General library) Pango (text language support) ATK (accessability)

www.gtk.org

Gzip .gz File Compression

ImageMagick Convert Image Formats Sharpen, Montage Animate, Collate Mogrify (resize, rotate) Command line driven

iptables http://www.iptables.org/

Netfilter/iptables Firewall /Router NAT

Network Address Translation

Gateway Traffic Filter

KDE http://www.kde.org

Graphical User Environment Development Environment Office Environment

KDE v.2 now includes koffice http://www.koffice.org/

KOffice http://www.koffice.org/

Spreadsheet - KSpread Word processor - KWord PowerPoint like presentation

application - KPresenter Charting component - KChart Vector drawing - KIllustrator

KOffice KWord - A frame-based word processor capable of

professional standard documents KSpread - A powerful spreadsheet application. KPresenter - A full-featured presentation program. Kivio - A Visio®-style flowcharting application. Kontour - A vector drawing application. Krita - A raster-based image manipulation program like

The GIMP or Adobe© Photoshop®. Kugar - A tool for generating business quality reports. KChart - An integrated graph and chart drawing tool.

less A Pager

Displays Pages Similar to…

more pg

Less is more a pager than anything else

lilo Linux Loader

Links http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links/

Unprecedented Visual Experience Web Browser

Linuxconf

lynx

make

modutils

Mozilla Open Netscape Browser

Mutt

MySQL Database

Nautilus

NcFTP

Netscape

Nmap

OpenLDAP

OpenOffice

OpenSSH

OpenSSL

Perl

PHP

Pine

Postfix

PostgreSQL

ppp

ProFTPD

Python

Qt

ReiserFS

rpm

Samba

Sendmail

StarOffice

Telnet

VIM

Webmin

wget

Xcin

XFree86

xine

xinetd

Xmms

Zope