Let's go through every single package installed with a Linux install image. I'm going through the software included with Slackware, but these are all open source applications in libraries, so whether you're running Slackware like me or Fedora, Debian, BSD, or even Mac or Windows, you can probably download, install, and try these on your computer. So chances are you'll be able to learn something from this podcast. Let's get started. There are a lot of libraries installed in any Linux distribution. Libraries are super important to make programmers' jobs easier, because if there's a library to do something, you don't have to write the code to do the thing. You just have to invoke the library. The library itself usually has several header files and compiled library files that you can just reference. You can invoke, you can use a function from that library or create a class based on that library and then do the thing that you want to do within your application. It sounds simple, and I mean, (1/54)
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