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[[!meta title="What software is available for GNU?"]]
-As of March 2013, 78% of Debian packages have been ported on the Hurd. Of
-course, bug testing and fixing is welcome, as we have obviously not tested all
-of them.
+As of March 2013, 78% of all [Debian](http://www.debian.org/)
+[packages](http://packages.debian.org/) are available for [[Debian
+GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]]. Of course, testing and bug fixing is welcome,
+as we have obviously not tested all of them.
-Most packages from [Debian](http://www.debian.org/)
-[GNU/Linux](http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html)
-which aren't Linux-specific (see [Packages That Won't Be
+Generally, packages
+that aren't Linux-specific (see [Packages That Won't Be
Ported](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel-debian))
-are expected to work on GNU/Hurd too. See the database in
-<http://packages.debian.org/>. Notably, [Xorg](http://www.x.org/),
+are expected to work on GNU/Hurd too. Notably, [X.Org](http://www.x.org/),
[GNOME](http://www.gnome.org/), [KDE](http://www.kde.org/),
[Firefox](http://www.mozilla.org/firefox) work. See
the [[hurd/porting/guidelines]] document for some common build problems and their