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
Main interface

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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.
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Powered by the industry-leading Nero Burning ROM engine, Nero Linux 3 is the definitive burning application for Linux operating systems. Record to CD, DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray disc, and experience the next generation of burning solutions for Linux!
Nero Linux 3 features:
- Blu-ray and HD DVD data recording support
- Upgrade to GTK 2.0
- Improved graphical user interface similar to the look and feel of the current Nero Burning ROM 7 edition
- Unicode support in all languages currently supported by Nero 7 Premium Reloaded
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FileHippo provide you with the simplest method of downloading the newest versions of the best software – without the usual excessive popups or spyware and without the low quality software.
They do not take software submissions from publishers. The site is user focused, and they analyze the software market daily for popular software to add.
Features
- Only the best software, we focus on quality not quantity.
- Very fast servers with 100Mb connections, to make your downloads as fast as possible.
- We keep the old versions of programs, so if you update and don’t like the new version, you can always return to the old one.
- All software is 100% spyware and virus free.
- Filtering feature to allow you to only show Freeware and/or Non-beta software.
- Full support for resuming downloads and download managers.
- Change log and technical details for downloads.
- RSS feeds for all updates, categories and for individual programs.
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.