Spoon Virtual Desktop Server is an application deployment platform that allows software packaged with Spoon Studio to be deployed via the web.

The name RPM variously refers to the file format, files in this format, software packaged in such files, and the package manager itself.

This eliminates dependency hell for software packaged in those repositories, which are typically maintained by the Linux distribution provider and mirrored worldwide.

The Tor Project, the development team behind the Tor anonymizing network, has developed a version of its software packaged for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.

As Ubuntu and Debian upon which it is based use the deb package format, it is easiest to install software packaged in that format.

In some cases, software packaged by GetDeb and PlayDeb may be beta or alpha releases.

All software packaged this way is always available, as long as a network connection is.

Historically, software packaged with some video card drivers provided virtual desktop functionality, such as in Nvidia's nView product (this product has been discontinued for GeForce card owners since Vista).

These instructions are stored in the subdirectory, which is added to the source tree for the software being packaged by the package maintainer.

The Informatics Suite is all the software packaged into one integrated suite.