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Debian Package of the Day

Posted by kdawson on from the even-got-an-RSS-feed dept.

flok writes "The Debian project has started a new webpage: the 'Debian package of the day.' It does what it says — every day another package from the Debian repository is posted with an elaborate description and some nice screenshots. As Debian (and all the other distributions as well) contains way too many packages for it to be feasible to inspect all of them yourself, this is then a nice way of learning about all kinds interesting software packages."

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  1. 3..2...1... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cue "my package is bigger than yours" jokes.

  2. Re:top o' the day by Rakshasa+Taisab · · Score: 4, Funny

    This must be why so few people know about the xargs command...

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  3. I hope this isn't totally random by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 3, Funny

    Otherwise you'll be getting something like:

    liborbit-dev

    ORBit is a lightweight CORBA ORB designed for use with the Gnome project. (Nothing about it requires Gnome, though.)
    This package contains the headers and static libraries used for developing ORBit-based applications. It also contains the IDL compiler needed to import object definitions into your C programs.

    Whoa, sexy!

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    1. Re:I hope this isn't totally random by Dionysus · · Score: 2, Funny

      What about the screenshots? We need the screenshots. Otherwise, how will we know whether we want to use it or not?

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  4. Re:top o' the day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thank god. It would've taken me forever to get to `whatis.'