Debian Package of the Day

A user 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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[Anonymous Coward]

Cue "my package is bigger than yours" jokes.

Re:top o' the day

[Rakshasa Taisab]

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

I hope this isn't totally random

[Rik Sweeney]

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!

Re:I hope this isn't totally random

[Dionysus]

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

Re:top o' the day

[Anonymous Coward]

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