Chapter 6. Choosing the right packages for the distribution

Table of Contents

Introduction
The base system: LinuxFromScratch
Future enhancements to LinuxFromScratch
Devfs
Simpleinit
Libraries
Development
Graphics
GUI libraries
Sound
Cryptography
The graphical user interface (GUI)
The free X11 implementation: XFree86
Window managers
The big desktop environments: KDE and GNOME
Development
Editors
Programming languages
Internet applications
Browsers
Servers
Clients
Office applications
Graphical applications
Sound and musical applications
Emulators
MS-DOS/Windows: Wine, Willow, DOSEMU & FreeDOS
Games
Basic games from GNOME, KDE, bsd-games
Bigger games
Hardware-related stuff
CD writing software
Printing
Scanner software
Scientific applications
These packages are included in Alindis
Summary