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Re: linux debian



On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 05:09 +0100, larry mckenna wrote:
> i looked through your soft ware packagwe list and found a strong snob
> tech speak for nerds why can you not be so eliist and name things the
> ordinary 5/8 th can read ?

You could use synaptic to search for software, e.g. by the keyword
"browser", if you want to know what browsers are available by the
repositories.

You also could use http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
Search on: [x] Descriptions

If it's to confusing for you regarding to the split package policy of
Debian, you could switch to a distro, that doesn't split software from
upstream to several packages, e.g. Arch Linux.

Apart from that it's not the distro that makes the names for the
available software, it's upstream, IOW you need to ask the software
developers why they name their software as they do. You won't sent a
mail to Microsoft and ask them, why they call iTunes for Windows iTunes,
because this software isn't from Microsoft, or would you?

Regards,
Ralf


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