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Liferea is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator for GTK/GNOME.

After using it, the first thing i did was to uninstall my firefox news feed plugins, as i won’t ever use them again (at least not on linux)

Some of the cool features i like, among others:

• Easy to use
• Searching feeds for content, and permanent search folders
• Can stand in the system tray, and show the ammount of new (unread) items
• Supports browser tabs inside the Lifearea application
• Complete set of preferences

You can read more about other functionality in the docs page, or even visit the lifearea blog wich has some updates on the development branch.

Main interface

Installing
Installing Lifearea on ubuntu is as easy as going to the “Applications” menu, “Add/Remove…” and select “Internet” - you can type “feed” on the search box to show only news readers - check “Lifearea Feed Reader” and press OK.

I haven’t tried installing it on any other distro because i’m only using ubuntu at this time, but i believe it shouldn’t be much harder.

Putty, a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, is out with a new version - 0.60 with some important bug fixes:

• Pressing Ctrl+Break now sends a serial break signal.
• Serial ports higher than COM9 now no longer need a leading \\.\.
• You can now store a host name in the Default Settings.
• Bug fix: serial connections and local proxies should no longer crash
  all the time.
• Bug fix: configuring the default connection type to serial should no
  longer cause the configuration dialog to be skipped on startup.
• Bug fix: “Unable to read from standard input” should now not happen,
  or if it still does it should produce more detailed diagnostics.
• Bug fix: fixed some malformed SSH-2 packet generation.
• Other minor bug fixes.

If you don’t know where to find it, this is the primary putty website

Envy is an application for Ubuntu Linux written in Python and PyGTK which will:

1. detect the model of your graphic card (ATI and Nvidia cards are supported). However “Manual installation” is also available
2. download the right version of the proprietary driver for your ATI or Nvidia card from ATI or Nvidia’s websites
3. handle the dependencies (compilers, OpenGL, etc.) (according to your OS version and kernel) required to build the module
4. install/uninstall the driver
5. set up your xorg.conf (i.e. the configuration file of the Xserver) for you (according to your system specifications)
6. restart the Xserver for you (if you wish so) (this feature is available only in the textual interface)

Interested? Visit Alberto Milone’s blog (the author) for the latest news about envy, or head on to the project’s page to grab it. (packages available for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 and Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10)

The original book has been online over two years, and in print as PHP in a Nutshell, but now all the content is available on this site as a wiki.

The contents of the wiki are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence (read it here), with one addition: by submitting content to this wiki you grant the author, Paul Hudson, the right to relicense your work under the GNU GPL 2.0 or later if he so chooses.

It took almost 5 years, but it’s finally ready. I’m not expecting to release v1.0.1 anytime soon, unless someone’s been sitting on a major bug just waiting for v1.0 to be released.

People wanting new features should start testing the upcoming v1.1. http://dovecot.org/nightly/ contains now snapshots from CVS HEAD. It already has tons of new features. I’ve been using it myself for half a year, so it should be mostly stable too. I’ll write a separate mail about this later.

Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Dovecot is an excellent choice for both small and large installations. It’s fast, simple to set up, requires no special administration and it uses very little memory.