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This is a Tango theme for the excellent email client Claws Mail. It is the first theme to take advantage of the native PNG support added with Claws Mail 3.4.0.

This is a Tango theme for the excellent email client Claws Mail. It is the first theme to take advantage of the native PNG support added with Claws Mail 3.4.0.

It’s a question that crops up very often for any PC user (well, the ones who are a bit geeky): how much memory is that process really using? There is a very nice console tool in the procps package that can answer that question. It’s called pmap and from what I understand it’s found its way [...]

The ultimate battle between Linux desktop RSS readers. It came down to Akgregator and Liferea. Read the scoop, see who won (and why).

PyFontSel is a very simple font selection dialog written in Python and using GTK+ 2.0, very useful when you need to quickly browse the fonts on your system.

RRDtool is a graphing tool. It contains tools that allow you to create a thing called a "round-robin database" (hence RRD), update it regularly with fresh data, and plot graphs based on that data. I'm going to give you a little taste of what you can use it for.

I’ve been spending some time lately trying to find the best PDF reader around. KPDF won hands down. Please, don’t even talk to me about Evince, gPDF, xPDF et al. They all have a way to go. And then one day I realised that the copy of Acrobat Reader I had around was an older static [...]