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To place ftp-explanation



Dear Sirs,

If it is possible, could you place an explanatory-file, similar to the
attached one, somewhere in http://ftp.debian.org/pool/ to help the
persons like me to differentiate packages and to better understand what
they are for.

Regards,
Cyril, Esq.
-dbg in .deb file-names
  means "debugging libraries".
-dev in .deb file-names
  means "development environment".

Those, above, only useful for developers wishing to compile
programs with use the package.

-bf in .deb file-names
  means "intended to be used on boot floppies". There is
  the boot-floppies, the potato and woody's installer,
  somewhere.
(?http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200311/msg00838.html). ???

(Below are taken from:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/FAQ/ch-compat.en.html#s-arches)

i386:
  this   covers   PCs   based   on  Intel  and  compatible 
  processors, including Intel's 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium 
  Pro,  Pentium II (both Klamath and Celeron), and Pentium 
  III,  and  most  compatible processors by AMD, Cyrix and 
  others.

m68k:
  this  covers  Amigas  and ATARIs having a Motorola 680x0 
  processor for x>=2; with MMU.

alpha:
  Compaq/Digital's Alpha systems.

sparc:
  this covers Sun's SPARC and most UltraSPARC systems.

powerpc:
  this   covers   some   IBM/Motorola   PowerPC  machines, 
  including CHRP, PowerMac and PReP machines.

arm:
  ARM and StrongARM machines.

mips:
  SGI's big-endian MIPS systems, Indy and Indigo2; mipsel: 
  little-endian MIPS machines, Digital DECstations.

hppa:
  Hewlett-Packard's  PA-RISC  machines (712, C3000, L2000, 
  A500).

ia64:
  Intel IA-64 ("Itanium") computers.

s390:
  IBM S/390 mainframe systems.

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