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02-23-2005, 12:00 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Baltimore, MD USA
Distribution: SUSE 9.2
Posts: 22
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Recommended websites for software
What are everyones favorite place to download software? I'm a total Linux n00b, and would like to find what everyones favorite places are.
Thanks.
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02-23-2005, 12:06 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: earth
Distribution: slackware by choice, others too :} ... android.
Posts: 23,067
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02-23-2005, 12:09 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Baltimore, MD USA
Distribution: SUSE 9.2
Posts: 22
Original Poster
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Thanks, Tink. 'Preciate it.
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02-23-2005, 12:15 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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02-23-2005, 01:42 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Omaha, NE, USA
Distribution: PCLinuxOS 2007
Posts: 808
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As a newbie, the *best* place to download software is your distro's repository.
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02-23-2005, 01:56 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Distribution: SuSE 9.0, Gentoo 2005.0, Fedora Core 4
Posts: 42
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Padma has the right idea, check your distro's package manager's list.
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