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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
+2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag faq/support faq/_important]]
+
+[[!meta title="What software is available for GNU?"]]
+
+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.
+
+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. 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
+solutions.