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-ng is a suffix sometimes used for "reboots" of abandoned or poorly maintained software; I believe it stands for "next generation".
by pxeger1 5y ago
-ng is a suffix sometimes used for "reboots" of abandoned or poorly maintained software; I believe it stands for "next generation".
- quinncom 5y agoThanks, I assumed that's what it meant. It's not terribly common, but there are a few packages using this naming convention: aircrack-ng, bwm-ng, crosstool-ng, libcap-ng, lincity-ng, minizip-ng, proxychains-ng, raxml-ng, recon-ng, stress-ng, zlib-ng, macfusion-ng, shadowsocksx-ng