Translations by Carlos Perelló Marín

Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Libs)

apt-move is used to move a collection of Debian package files into a proper archive hierarchy as is used in the official Debian archive. It is intended as a tool to help manage the apt-get(8) file cache, but could be configured to work with any collection of Debian packages.

a mail notification tool

biff is a small program that prints a message to your terminal when new email arrives. Actually, the message is printed by the comsat daemon, and biff just enables/disables the u+x permission flag for the terminal, which comsat uses to determine whether or not to write to your terminal.

By default, the biff service is disabled. To use biff email notification, you must enable this service by running 'update-inetd --enable biff' after the package is installed. You may also need to modify the configuration of your mail transport agent to enable comsat notification.

Buffered audio file player/recorder

The bplay package provides a simple command-line utility for playing and recording audio files in raw sample, VOC and WAV formats.

To use this program you need a soundcard of some kind and the appropriate driver configured into your kernel.

When run the program creates two processes which share a memory buffer. It does reading/writing on the disk and the sound device simultaneously, in order to be less liable to `pause' because the disk is too slow or too busy.

CDDB DiscID utility

Shoot-em-up a la galaxian

Note: criticalmass uses OpenGL, and will probably not run well if you do not have a 3d accelerator which is supported by X.

criticalmass, aka critter, is a shoot-'em-up in the style of Galaxian with very colorful and smooth graphics (provided that you have 3d acceleration)

SYSV and DOS filename conflicts check

Checks filenames for conflicts under 14-character SYSV and 8.3 DOS limitations.

Manipulate .dvi files

Allows you to select, change the order, and/or shift the pages in a .dvi file.

Japanese input system

Documentation for the GNU compilers (gcc, gobjc, g++)

Documentation for the GNU compilers in info format.

It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software.

periodic table application

GPeriodic is a small X/GTK+-based program which allows you to browse through a periodic table of chemical elements, and view somewhat detailed information on each of the elements. 118 elements are currently listed.

Grace is a point-and-click tool that allows the user to draw X-Y plots. This is the program formerly known as Xmgr.

'InterNetNews' news server

This package provides INN 2.x, which is a very complex news server daemon useful for big sites. The 'inn' package still exists for smaller sites which do not need the complexity of INN 2.x.

The news transport is the part of the system that stores the articles and the lists of which groups are available and so on, and provides those articles on request to users. It receives news (either posted locally or from a newsfeed site), files it, and passes it on to any downstream sites. Each article is kept for a period of time and then deleted (this is known as 'expiry').

By default Debian's INN will install in a fairly simple 'local-only' configuration.

This is the Polish dictionary, to be used with the ispell program, version 3.1.04 and following. The dictionary contains roughly 200,000 roots, which expand to about 2,500,000 words.

This is the Jargon File, a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor. The file is in info format, but includes an HTML page with links to the home site.

Note that this package is now out-of-date, because the upstream author is no longer maintaining an info version of the file.

Jim Plank's program for producing PostScript graphs

The graph description language is simple enough to get nice looking graphs with a minimum of effort, yet powerful enough to give the user the flexibility to tailor the appearance of the graph to his or her individual preferences. This includes plotting multiple graphs and laying them out separately on the page (or pages).

Debian Jr. Documentation

Includes, for the moment, just the "Quick Guide" which helps a new user of Debian Jr. get started. The intention of the Debian Jr. working group is to provide a variety of additional documents to help children and sys admins alike with the installation, configuration, and use of a Debian Jr. system.

Debian Jr. arcade games

Debian Jr. Card Games

A collection of card games, for the time being just solitaire, which are probably more suited to older children than young, although the "memory" type games in pysol may appeal to children just entering grade school.

Debian Jr. 3D Games (hardware acceleration required)

These games all use OpenGL libraries. They will not work without decent 3D graphics cards providing hardware-accelerated OpenGL.

While armagetron and gltron are different interpretations of the game depicted in the classic 3D-animated movie "Tron", Tux Racer is an all-original made-for-Linux 3D racing game. Unlike the standard blood-and-guts fare in the 3D games universe, all of these games are suitable for children.

Debian Jr. Simulation Games

Debian Jr. Text Games

The principal virtue of these games is their simplicity. They will run on any hardware, and some of them are simple enough to control so that very young children can enjoy them (e.g. snake)

Debian Jr. educational math

Debian Jr. programming

Debian Jr. sound

Debian Jr. desktop toys

Debian Jr. typing

This package supports both Canna cannaserver and Wnn jserver (version 4 or 6).