Software Environment

The primary source of software installed on GSI IT's Linux computers are Debian packages. For other software or additional versions we utilize CvmFs.

Debian offers a wide variety of software packages (over 50000 according to https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian). Obviously the Linux group cannot support all combinations of those packages, therefore we had to choose some standards:

Type	Standard	Also installed but unsupported
Desktop Environment	KDE	XFCE
Web Browser	Firefox/Iceweasel	Chromium, Konqueror, w3m
Mail Client/PIM	Thunderbird	Evolution, KMail/Kontact, mutt, alpine
Office	Libreoffice

The software installation lists are split in 3 categories:

• Minimal core software installed on all Linux farm nodes
• Development related software (libraries and headers, compilers, interpreters etc.).
• Desktop related software (office and productivity, IDEs, etc.)

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