I suppose that's ok for most people, but I prefer searching Freshmeat and Sourceforge for software, and once found, I check if that package is available as a Debian package somewhere. Sofar I found only a small number of applications not available as Debian packages and they were easy enough to get working from source.

The only problem I have seen with newbies is that they are overwhelmed with what's available on Linux. Another problem is the status of some of the software packages - a whole bunch of stuff on 'stable' release distro's is still 'beta' clasified. That doesn't mean that they are unstable, but it does confuse the issue.

Anyway, some other nice sites I can recommend:

http://repositories.alioth.debian.org/ -> Unofficial Debian Repositories
http://www.backports.org/ -> Debian Backports
http://www.apt-get.org/ -> Unofficial APT repositories


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Joh 3:36

really nice website instead of searching you have all piece of software in one place.Your site is really good and very nice debian articles are there.

thanks for that.

It is good because every tools is classfied into nicely-thought categories. However, it is bad because it is useless, if you allow me to say so.

For clueless people, merely looking at names like "Ultramonkey", "Pound", "Linux-ha" and "Drbd" does not make sense at all. They need to know at least what they are, the short description from apt-cache should be the very minimum along the names. or better how good they are.

For people who know what they are, they don't need to come here to take a look.

just my 2c.

tong