sheldonisaac,sheldonisaac wrote:I don't know how to find and install Debian software; are they called "packages".
In Puppy, I look for .pet packages of, for example, claws e-mail, or Opera browser.
I'm certainly aware that Debian uses apt-get, but am almost totally unfamiliar with how to.
There is a GUI called Synaptic for downloading debian apts from their big repository. You reach it via the JWM menu:
JWM -> Settings -> Synaptic
You can often alternatively use sfs files made in puppy.