Samba is a suite of Unix applications that speak the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol. Many operating systems, including Windows and OS/2, use SMB to perform client-server networking. By supporting this protocol, Samba

DNS Stands for Domain Name Service.On the Internet, the Domain Name Service (DNS) stores and associates many types of information with domain names; most importantly, it translates domain names to IP addresses

bsc (BeeSoft Commander) is a graphical file manager (similar to the midnight commander) that displays two directories
at once for easier copying and moving of files.

Nvidia have released their 9xxx series drivers.This allows compiz/beryl to now run directly on an x server (xorg7.1) without separate aiglx or xgl.

Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java applications are compiled to bytecode, which at runtime is either interpreted or compiled to native machine code for execution.