Accessibility Software - For special needs users, Open Source assistive software such as Emacspeak, the W3 browser, and UnWindows.

Administration Tools - System administration tools, such as ethereal, sudo, and rpm.

Web Infrastructure Software - Server software (daemons) for hosting web and Internet services.

Desktop Environment and X Window Managers - Software that provides the graphical user interface for launching applications, file management, drag-and-drop icons, and so on. Several Window Manager packages are included as well as the K-Desktop Environment.

Desktop Applications - Graphical desktop applications, including productivity and multimedia software.

Command-line Tools and Utilities - Command-line utilities and tools such as the *utils packages from the GNU project.

Editors - Applications that are used for writing text documents and software programs.

Security Tools - Tools for system and network security monitoring and detection, such as snort, nmap, and tcpdump.

Messaging Software - Client-side applications and tools for email, WWW, news, and chat.

Languages - The gcc compiler and several high-level (scripting) programming languages.

Developer Libraries - Collections of libraries with software routines for developers.

Developer Tools - Tools for software developers, such as autoconf, automake, and cvs.