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Chapter 4

Software available in the Debian

system

4.1 What types of applications and development software are avail 

able for Debian GNU/Linux?

Like most Linux distributions, Debian GNU/Linux provides:

  the major GNU applications for software development, file manipulation, and text pro 

cessing, including gcc, g++, make, texinfo, Emacs, the Bash shell and numerous up 

graded Unix utilities,

  Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk and various related programs, modules and libraries for each of

them,

  TeX (LaTeX) and Lyx, dvips, Ghostscript,

  the X Window System, which provides a networked graphical user interface for Linux,

and countless X applications including GNOME and KDE.

  a full suite of networking applications, including servers for Internet protocols such as

HTTP (WWW), FTP, NNTP (news), SMTP and POP (mail) and name server; also pro 

vided are web browsers, and development tools.

More than 15180 packages, ranging from news servers and readers to sound support, FAX

programs, database and spreadsheet programs, image processing programs, communications,

net, and mail utilities, Web servers, and even ham radio programs are included in the distribu 

tion. Another 450 software suites are available as Debian packages, but are not formally part

of Debian due to license restrictions.