mpop is a small, fast, and portable POP3 client. Its
features include header-based email filtering (filter junk mail before downloading it), delivery to mbox files, maildir folders, or a mail delivery agent, a very fast POP3 implementation, many authentication methods, and good support for TLS/SSL.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release adds support for storing passwords in the GNOME keyring.

msmtp is an SMTP client that can be used with Mutt and other MUAs. It forwards messages to an SMTP server which does the delivery. Features include various SMTP AUTH methods, TLS-encrypted connections (including server certificate verification and the ability to send a client certificate), support for multiple accounts, DSN, and IPv6 support.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release adds support for storing passwords in the GNOME keyring.

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Linux LiveCD Router turns any old PC into a router, firewall, QoS traffic control, and VPN appliance and lets you speed up your Internet connection. It does not require installation and supports inexpensive hardware such as USB and PCMCIA WiFi and Ethernet cards.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
New additions are Linux kernel 2.6.28, an ext4 file system option, USB WiFi drivers, and Madwifi Atheros version hal 0.10.5.6. Ndiswrappers are not available in this version.

The Avis client library is a C API for clients
accessing Elvin event routers, including the open
source Avis event router and the commercial
Mantara Elvin product.

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License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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Changes:
This release improves the overall reliability of the library.

uBeeDisk is a tool that copies disks and images
from one to another. It was developed to archive
Microbee disk images from floppy disks and to
write them back to floppy, but other disk formats
can be added. It is intended mainly for users of
computer emulators. As the program makes use of
the ‘LibDsk’ library there are many options for
image types. The program provides some data
recovery methods along with ‘info’ files for each
disk image file created. An ‘info’ file contains
information about the disk image, a status map of
all sectors read from the disk, and an MD5 stamp
of the associated disk image.

Developer’s Image Library (DevIL) is a cross-platform image library utilizing a simple syntax to load, save, convert, manipulate, filter, and display a variety of images with ease. It is highly portable and has been ported to several platforms, including the Pocket PC.

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License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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Changes:
This release includes DirectX 10 support, better 64-bit support, German translations of the error messages, and more. The typedef void that prevented compilation with the latest GCC was removed as well.

If you run a lot of terminal tabs or scripts that all need to make OpenSSH connections to the same server, you can speed them all up with multiplexing: making the first one act as the master and letting the others share its TCP connection to the server. If you don’t already have a config file in the .ssh directory in your home directory, create it with permissions 600: readable and writeable only by you.

If you haven’t found a gift for the Linux Community yet, why not head over to a forum and see how many people you can help out?

I haven’t tried ZenWalk in a very long time, but I’m thinking about it. When I first started using Linux in early 2007, ZenWalk was one of the systems I played around with. I had a nice install at one point, and that particular machine would boot and install the old version of ZenWalk at the time but not the new version. As a last-ditch effort/experiment, I tried to upgrade the old system, but since ZenWalk had stopped supporting my old system but kept everything in the same repository, the upgrade bricked the install. Morale of that story: Always put /home on its own partition so you can do a reinstall. Be that as it may, ZenWalk is a super-fast system with excellent hardware detection and less geeky pain than in Slackware, upon which Zenwalk is based.

Open source software can offer functionality well beyond its price, but it doesn’t come without costs.