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List of sections in "experimental"

Administration Utilities: Utilities to administer system resources, manage user accounts, etc.
Communication Programs: Software to use your modem in the old fashioned style.
Databases: Database Servers and Clients.
debian-installer udeb packages: Special packages for building customized debian-installer variants. Do not install them on a normal system!
Debug packages: Packages providing debugging information for executables and shared libraries.
Development: Development utilities, compilers, development environments, libraries, etc.
Documentation: FAQs, HOWTOs and other documents trying to explain everything related to Debian, and software needed to browse documentation (man, info, etc).
Editors: Software to edit files. Programming environments.
Electronics: Electronics utilities.
Embedded software: Software suitable for use in embedded applications.
Fonts: Font packages.
Games: Programs to spend a nice time with after all this setting up.
GNOME: The GNOME desktop environment, a powerful, easy to use set of integrated applications.
GNU R: Everything about GNU R, a statistical computation and graphics system.
Go: Go programming language, libraries, and development tools.
Graphics: Editors, viewers, converters... Everything to become an artist.
Ham Radio: Software for ham radio.
Haskell: Everything about Haskell.
Web Servers: Web servers and their modules.
Interpreters: All kind of interpreters for interpreted languages. Macro processors.
Introspection: Machine readable introspection data for use by development tools.
Java: Everything about Java.
JavaScript: JavaScript programming language, libraries, and development tools.
KDE: The K Desktop Environment, a powerful, easy to use set of integrated applications.
Kernels: Operating System Kernels and related modules.
Library development: Libraries necessary for developers to write programs that use them.

Libraries: Libraries to make other programs work. They provide special features to developers.

Lisp: Everything about Lisp.
Language packs: Localization support for big software packages.
Mail: Programs to route, read, and compose E-mail messages.
Mathematics: Math software.
Meta packages: Packages that mainly provide dependencies on other packages.
Miscellaneous: Miscellaneous utilities that didn't fit well anywhere else.
Network: Daemons and clients to connect your system to the world.
OCaml: Everything about OCaml, an ML language implementation.
Old Libraries: Old versions of libraries, kept for backward compatibility with old applications.
Other OS's and file systems: Software to run programs compiled for other operating systems, and to use their filesystems.
Perl: Everything about Perl, an interpreted scripting language.
PHP: Everything about PHP.
Python: Everything about Python, an interpreted, interactive object oriented language.
Ruby: Everything about Ruby, an interpreted object oriented language.
Rust: Rust programming language, library crates, and development tools
Science: Basic tools for scientific work
Shells: Command shells. Friendly user interfaces for beginners.
Sound: Utilities to deal with sound: mixers, players, recorders, CD players, etc.
TeX: The famous typesetting software and related programs.
Text Processing: Utilities to format and print text documents.
Utilities: Utilities for file/disk manipulation, backup and archive tools, system monitoring, input systems, etc.
Version Control Systems: Version control systems and related utilities.
Video: Video viewers, editors, recording, streaming.
Virtual packages: Virtual packages.
Web Software: Web servers, browsers, proxies, download tools etc.
X Window System software: X servers, libraries, window managers, terminal emulators and many related applications.
Xfce: Xfce, a fast and lightweight Desktop Environment.

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