PACKAGE NAME: avahi-0.6.24-i486-1gds.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./Daemon/Avahi PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 417 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 1590 K PACKAGE REQUIRED: cairo >= 1.6.4,dbus >= 1.2.6,expat >= 2.0.1,gdbm >= 1.8.3,glib2 >= 2.16.6,gtk+2 >= 2.12.12,libdaemon >= 0.13,libglade >= 2.6.3,qt >= 3.3.8 PACKAGE SUGGESTS: dbus-glib >= 0.78,dbus-python >= 0.83.0,python >= 2.5.2 PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: avahi: Avahi - Local network service discovery avahi: avahi: Avahi is an implementation of the Multicast DNS and DNS Service avahi: Discovery (mDNS/DNS-SD) specifications for Zeroconf computing. avahi: This means that you can plug your machine into a network and instantly avahi: be able to view other people whom you can chat with, find printers to avahi: print to, or find files being shared. This kind of technology is avahi: already found in MacOS X (also known as Rendezvous, Bonjour, and avahi: Zeroconf). It is based on the discontinued flexmdns project. avahi: avahi: Packaged by Georgi D. Sotirov