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Allegro

Allegro is a multi-platform game library that provides many functions for graphics, sounds, player input (keyboard, mouse, and joystick), and timers. It also provides fixed and floating point mathematical functions, 3D functions, file management functions, compressed datafile, and a GUI.
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Alsa

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture project is being developed in the Linux operating system and is released under version 2 of the GPL (GNU general public license) and the LGPL (GNU library general public license).
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Avifile

Avifile is a library that allows you to read and write compressed AVI files in most common video & audio formats (Indeo® Video, DivX, etc.) under x86 Linux. Compression and decompression are performed with Win32 DLLs. It includes a simple AVI player and a Video4Linux capture program. Currently it is under heavy development, and while some features (such as AVI playback) already work, some (audio compression) are not yet successfully implemented.
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CSV

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GTK

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Kernel

The latest kernel source and patches. Don't use the 2.4.15/2.5.0 kernel. It has a filesystem corruption bug in it. It is included on the DVD for completeness only.
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Mesa

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OggVorbis

Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source.
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SBdriver

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SDL

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SVGAlib

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gcc-3.0

The best compiler in the world?
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lesstif

LessTif is an LGPL'd implemention of the OSF/Motif standard GUI toolkit for X11. LessTif aims to be source compatible with the OSF/Motif versions 1.2 and 2.1. Currently 1.2 support is almost complete and most Motif 1.2 apps should compile and run out of the box, whilst 2.1 still has very little functionality.
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libSMTP

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libmcrypt

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libstdC++3

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libxml

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ncurses

Text-based interface creation library
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