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<section id="about">
<title>About <application>APTonCD</application></title>
<section id="about-License">
<title>License</title>
<para>&aoc; is under a GPL license. Please read
<ulink url="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php" type="help">this page</ulink> for more information. </para>
</section>
<section id="about-Feedback">
<title>Feedback</title>
<para>To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding <application>APTonCD</application>
follow the directions in the <ulink url="http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net" type="help">
APTonCD Project Page</ulink>.</para>
</section>
<section id="about-getting AptonCD">
<title>Installation</title>
<para>For Ubuntu, <application>APTonCD</application> can be obtained from the official universe repository using any of
any of the normal apt-get, aptitude, synaptic installation tools.
For other debian distributions, or to get the latest version, visit
<ulink url="http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/downloads" type="help"> the
project download page.</ulink> Source code is also available there.</para>
</section>
<section id="about-examples">
<title>Examples of situations where &aoc; can be useful</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Jack has just installed Ubuntu and has configured it for a radical look, with all his
favorite applications, packages, codecs etc., and everything is working very well. But, if in the course
of destiny he needs to re-format his PC, all packages will be lost, and later on he will have to download
all of the packages all over again.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Kate does not have a Internet conection in her home... but she wants to have a way to
install her favorite (or needed) packages on her Ubuntu box.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Hugo is making a Ubuntu network in his office with 50 computers that will run Ubuntu.
He is downloading the same 534 packages on all 50 machines, one by one.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Charlie is a happy boy... he is going to spend 2 months at his grandmother's home but,
in the Lost Island there isn't an internet connection. In his own home, where he is now, he has a 10Mbps
internet link and he wants take with him all the repositories to use in his off-line notebook.</para></listitem>
<!-- <listitem><para>Sawyer has installed thousands of packages in his Dapper box, but... the Edgy release
is coming and he wants to reinstall the system. He wants to have the same packages (not the same version
of them) in Edgy too, but he doesn't know the name of packages that he installed, and he wants a
'automagic' way to do it.</para></listitem> -->
<listitem><para>Sun is a pretty girl that likes various flavours of desktops, she likes KDE, GNOME, XFCE...
and many other desktop environments. She wants to have all the installable desktops and metapackages
(and their dependencies) on one (or more) DVD(s) so she can have them with her everywhere.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</section>
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