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Here is the proprietary driver for ATI graphics cards (eg Radeon). X.org includes basic drivers, but for full 3D performance you should install this driver. Copy the driver file to your home directory, then open a terminal window, switch to root and enter 'sh ati-driver-installer-8.7-x86.x86_64.run' to install. (You may need to close the X Window System first - consult your distro's documentation for more details.)
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Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, that will appear in the GNU operating system (and is the default shell in most GNU/Linux systems). Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification.
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Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System, Win32, image buffers, and PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL (through glitz), Quartz, and XCB.
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When installing software, and 'make install' is done, CheckInstall will create a Slackware, RPM or Debian compatible package and install it with Slackware's installpkg, "rpm -i" or Debian's "dpkg -i" as appropriate, so you can view it's contents with pkgtool ("rpm -ql" for RPM users or "dpkg -l" for Debian) or remove it with removepkg ("rpm -e"|"dpkg -r").
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The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU/Linux operating system. These are the core utilities which are expected to exist on every operating system.
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Comma separated index files of the cover discs, ready for import into the data base of your choice.
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GLib is a low-level core library that forms the basis of many projects, including the famous GTK+ toolkit.
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Any Unix-like operating system needs a C library: the library which defines the "system calls" and other basic facilities such as open, malloc, printf, exit... The GNU C library is used as the C library in the GNU system and most systems with the Linux kernel.
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GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off projects to complete application suites, such as Gnome.
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HardInfo is a system information and benchmark tool for Linux systems. Using HardInfo, you can get information about hardware devices, the operating system, and more. To install, copy the hardinfo-0.4.2.2-x86.package file to your home directory and run it (as root).
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Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available under the MIT License. XML itself is a metalanguage to design markup languages, i.e. text language where semantic and structure are added to the content using extra "markup" information enclosed between angle brackets. HTML is the most well-known markup language. Though the library is written in C a variety of language bindings make it available in other environments.
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Text-mode windowing toolkit library, with a patch of the latest updates and fixes.
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Here is the proprietary driver for NVIDIA graphics cards, in 32-bit and 64-bit x86 versions. X.org includes basic drivers, but for full 3D performance you should install this driver. Copy the .run files to your home directory, and then enter 'sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.09-pkg1.run' (for 32-bit machines) or 'sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.09-pkg2.run' (for 64-bit machines) at a terminal prompt, as root, to install. You may need to halt the X server and do this from the command-line.
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Write images to floppy disk with Windows, needed to create Linux installer boot disks.
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Smart Boot Manager (SBM) is an OS independent and full-featured boot manager with an easy-to-use user interface. There are some screen shots available. The main goals of SBM are Absolutly OS independent, Flexable and Full-Featured. It has all of the features needed to boot a variety of OSes from several kinds of media, while keeping its size no more than 30K bytes. In another words, SBM does NOT touch any of your partitions, it totally fits into the first track (the hidden track) of your harddisk! SBM now supports booting from floppy, harddisk and CD-ROM. ZIP and LS-120 are planned to be supported recently.
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Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power." SDL supports Linux, Windows, BeOS, MacOS Classic, MacOS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX.
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