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What types of applications and development software are available for Debian GNU/Linux?

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What types of applications and development software are available for Debian GNU/Linux?

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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 them, • TeX (LaTeX) and Lyx, dvips, Ghostscript, • the Xorg windowing system, which provides a networked graphical user interface for Linux, and countless X applications including the GNOME, KDE and Xfce desktop environments. • a full suite of networking applications, including servers for Internet protocols such as HTTP (WWW), FTP, NNTP (news), SMTP and POP (mail) and DNS (name servers); relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL; also provided are web browsers including the various Mozilla products [1], • a complete set of office applications, including the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, Gnumeric and other spreadsheets, WYSIWYG editors, calendars. Mo