Lots of info on free software packages ( over 20.000 packages cited )

[Marc]

(Sorry, t'is in't engels, ook ik ga ecologisch met mijn teksten om, en 
hergebruik ze, dat laat me toe toch nog wat in de zon te zitten ... en 
niet alles in het frans, nederlands te vertalen...)


List of 20000+ software packages: (name + description in long)


http://users.fulladsl.be/spb13810/linux/software.txt

( The French parliament is going to use Ubuntu.com linux  as of this 
summer. )

about this packages and this text:

Because I was unhappy I did not have a simple means to search the index 
of all packages linux (in fact debian) gives me, I made a long text file 
which consists of the package name, followed by its detailed information 
(if it exists).  That makes a file of about 15Mb, and 280.000 lines. 
Now, people that DO NOT have linux can do a word search on this file, 
and will soon see what applications interest them.  Of course, I know 
this file contains some overhead, but if you choose your search key 
well, the result will be better ...
I wrote this text for the last link:

Here is the list:
http://users.fulladsl.be/spb13810/linux/software.txt

Comments on typography are always welcome ...  (I made this in a hurry, 
so I'll change it anyway)

(In fact, it should be easy to make a html, but I won't spend too much 
time now.)

Is there anybody that knows about this kind of text with all pkg included??
Of course, I know, if you have linux, you can start Synaptic, and do a
search there, but non linux users can't do that, and this is like a 
paper dictionary: you look at a term, and you can let your eyes wonder 
around forother terms, so that you learn things you didn't expected.... 
  (and you could search internet, or eg http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/ 
, but ... too much clicking involved ...)

PS: if you are lucky, this software exists for you PC/ windows or for 
your mac ...
But  a linux install is less trouble, then you have ONE application 
which shows all 20000+ software packages, one click, and they are 
installed. On a platform like Windows, you need to surf to 20000 
websites, download implicitly, and install yourself.  On Apple, you can 
use fink, and sometimes reach 5000 packages, but you need to be a half 
unix expert, so yo can better start of linux anyway ...


PS2: The radio software is on: (I like to put it together to attract 
radio/HAM/... fans to the linux system.  I would like to convert them .. 
;-)  ( "Convert" like in http://www.overcomerministry.org/ ?? )

http://users.fulladsl.be/spb13810/linux/radio.txt
(this list is way faster to search in than:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/hamradio/ )


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