What types of applications and development software are available for BOSS GNU/Linux?
Like most Linux distributions, Debian GNU/Linux provides: • The major GNU applications for software development, file manipulation, and text processing, including gcc, g++, make, texinfo, Emacs, the Bash shell and numerous upgraded Unix utilities. • Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk and various related programs, modules and libraries for each of the • TeX (LaTeX) and Lyx, dvips, Ghostscript. • The X Window System, which provides a networked graphical user interface for Linux, and countless X applications including GNOME and KDE as well as the GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program. • A full suite of networking applications, including servers for Internet protocols such as HTTP (WWW), FTP, NNTP (news), SMTP and POP (mail) and name server; relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL; also provided are web browsers including the various Mozilla producs, • a complete set of office applications, including the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, Gnumeric and other spreadsheets, WYSIWYG editors, calendars. Mo
