Free sylpheed software for linux

Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client.
Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many features such as multiple accounts, POP3/SMTP/IMAP/NNTP support, OpenSSL, GnuPG, and LDAP support, a plugin system, spell checking, filtering, Actions, spam and virus filters, an address book, internationalization, and more.
Sylpheed-Claws has themeable icon sets.
Enhancements:
- This release contains 30 themes.

Olive is (yet another) GNU/Linux Live distribution. Olive LiveCD distirbution offers quite a good deal of new technologies, hardly witnessed ever before, as well as some of the more common pieces of software. Its size is approx. 110MiB, yet it allows a lot of software to be used.
Olives whole point is to display how easy to use Linux may be, yet without losing any of the features required for heavy-duty work. Its also supposed to show various unusual new technologies, not widely known or accepted.
Please note that Olive was, partially, built as graduation work at SPSST Panska. Once presented, a release built specifically for school will be available upon personal request.
Main features:
Media
Olive features MPlayer for playing of your favourite movies. It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, Matroska files. You can also watch Theora, MPEG4 (DivX/XviD), Real Media, DVD, VideoCD, SVCD movies. MPlayer also supports various filters for better experience. Mencoder is bundled with MPlayer and it allows you to encode movies into virtually any of the formats mentioned above.
Although you can use MPlayer to play your music, theres also an application that was written just for that: Audacious. Audacious is a fork of Beep Media Player (now discontinued), which is in turn fork of the very famous XMMS. It supports various audio formats, including MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg FLAC, Musepack, WAV files and Windows Media, as well as many sequenced formats including MIDI, and a host of different module formats. In addition, Audacious uses Winamp-like skins (and supports Winamp "classic" skins), to provide a familiar and friendly user interface.
You can of course view photos and pictures using GQview, an intuitive image browser. It can generate thumbnails of your pictures, its capable of reading EXIF metadata, has advanced image search function and much more.
Internet
The Internet is part of everyday life for all of us; was it not for the Internet, you wouldnt be able to read this webpage. Olive features Mozilla Firefox web browser, currently the most common web browser used on Linux. For browsing in console, ELinks is a must-have. There is also Sylpheed e-mail client, small, fast and incredibly useful.
These days, Instant Messaging is a common part of our lives. Therefore, Olive sports GAIM2 (beta2) multi-protocol instant messaging client, which is compatibile with protocols such as ICQ, MSN Messenger,Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber or Gadu-Gadu. There is also a client dedicated solely to Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which is X-Chat. As usually, there are console alternatives, which would be CenterICQ and irssi.
You can use Kismet to look for Wi-Fi hotspots. Basic utilities such as telnet or ssh client and server (Dropbear, used in various embedded systems) are not missing as well.
General work
You can perform some elementary office work in Olive as well. Although its obvious that you wont be doing most of your office work on Olive, its quite reasonable to believe it can come in handy. Therefore, Olive has AbiWord word processor to allow you to read and write documents, in various languages, in various characters, without any problem.
AbiWord can also handle various document formats, which includes Microsoft Word or WordPerfect documents. You can also export your documents into HTML for further processing or publication. You can also read Adobe PDF format using Evince, a Gnome/GTK2 document viewer whose PDF backend is based on the Poppler library, which is based on the well-known XPDF. Utilities that allow you export of PDF documents into eg. HTML are also included.
System control
Considering the differences in approach to configuration in various distributions, it may be often hard to configure several things at yet another distribution, such as the X server or preferences of software alternatives. Therefore, Olive features a trivial control panel, allowing any application to be merged in as a new panel. Although it still misses few more desired panels (most notable for network configuration), it already is quite useful for every day usage.
Eye candy
Good-looking environment always helps users to better orientate on the workplace, as well as consider the time they spend with the system more enjoyable. Transparency can be achieved using XComposite extension and xcompmgr + transset.
Though XGL and AIGLX were considered, the decision was made not to use them for their lack of testing and for the demand for support of as many platforms as possible. Please note that even XComposite may have its own issues with other software, most notably Enlightenment and MPlayer, and for this reason xcompmgr is not run by default.
Lightweight
If you consider the above features way too much for you and strive for something lighter, then you can use the FluxBox window manager. FluxBox was finetuned to look and feel as much as Enlightenment as possible, making the transition simple. There are also lightweight versions of some of the software, as mentioned above, such as irssi, CenterICQ or ELinks.
Enhancements:
- A significant bug was found in v0.1, causing ramdisk for people who have 1GiB of RAM or more broken. Please, upgrade to 0.2.

PapugLinux is a light desktop environment live CD using Fluxbox and contains standard desktop applications as AbiWord, Bluefish, XMMS, Graveman, Firefox & Sylpheed. The server side has not been forgotten with Apache, ProFTP, Ssh, and Cups.
Current release is labeled 06.1 and is the first one of a - I hope - long serie.
PapugLinux is based on Gentoo and was built using Slax tools.
I didnt had time to thank Tomas Matejicek from linux-live.org, a chapter will be add on sylbal.net website to correct this, sorry !
This project is not maintened by Gentoo Fundation, please do not submit any bug to Gentoo developers.
Enhancements:
This version includes major software updates as well as better hardware support. This version also includes Rox filer and its bundle of useful tools to improve user experience. Please visit http://www.sylbal.net website for more information and download. We hope this release will be as welcome as the previous ones and that PapugLinux user community will continue to grow.
Updated pakages
- X.Org-7.2 X-Window server
- Firefox-2.0.0.4 browser
- Sylpheed-2.4.2 mail client
- AbiWord-2.6 word processor
- Fluxbox-1.0 window manager
Added packages
- Rox-2.6 filemanager and tools
- Links-2.1 text based browser
- CVS-1.12 sources manager
- Foomatic printer filters for CUPS
Removed packages
- Xmms replaced with Audacious
- ETerm replaced with Rox-Term

Nbed-Nakooki Live CD is a generalist GNU/Linux OS for the x86 platform.
It is based entirely on two projects :
- Norean, a collection of tools for Linux distribution creators.
Nbed is on of the Norean tools, that is used to generate the live-CD using Nakooki packages.
- Nakooki, a demonstration and pedagogic implementation of Norean tools in the form of a small source-centric distribution, that can also be used as a start point for other distributions.
Main features:
- Abiword A text-processor
- Firefox Web browser
- mplayer,xmms Video and music players
- The Gimp Graphics software
- sylpheed Mail and news reader
- Rox
Its also the result of the work on Nbed, that will offer many more things in the future. This Live-CD is a proof of concept of Nbed, at this point in time. Since Nakooki is a simple collection of packages definitions, to be compiled by yourself - without any installation CD or such, Nbed-Nakooki is a simple opportunity to allow people testing and installing (with Nbed-HD-install) a Nakooki system on their Hard Drive without special skills required.
However, even if this cant be compared in terms of features, support, etc. Nbed-Nakooki has the following advantages:
- Its very Simple to use, no complicated questions.
- Has very good performances, once the desktop is loaded.
- Its based on a very classic system, easy to understand (for those already using Linux)

DeadCD is a minimalistic Linux livecd, based on the Debian distribution. Its goal is to provide small - the maximum size is 100 MB -, fast and feature-rich versatile system.
DeadCD is minimalistic Linux live CD based on Debian that provides a small (at most 100MB), fast, feature-rich, and versatile system. It features software for both the command line and X, making it quite usable for different configurations. It features software such as Mozilla Firefox, MPlayer, Sylpheed, irssi, centericq, OpenSSH, and thttpd.
Enhancements:
- UnionFS 1.0.5 - yes, DeadCD is probably the first distro to use UnionFS for 2.6 kernels.
- Minor rewrite of mountpoint autodetection
- Fixed minor issue with initrd-tools
- Nearly doubled list of cards in video.lst
- If you do not have a config, startx will run xconf first
- Added "exec,suid,dev" options to mountpoints
- Fixed looking monitors up in database
- Add nmap
- Add 855resolution
- Add deadinstall to deadtools - HDD installation is now possible easily, however needs still some work
- Add homeimage=hda1/root:home.img boot-option
- Add rdesktop
- Add patch
- Add multiple application wizards to DeadEasy
- Add ssl support to msmtp
- Add hdparm
- Some attempt to get boot from USB cd-rom working - possibly wont make it, but at least a good start

Makepack project is a Makefile which together with a settings file and some simple rule files are able to download, compile and install software for your Slackware installation.

As the installation is done using checkinstall a Slackware package is also created at the same time.

The big strenght of makepack is that it has mechanisms to keep track of dependencies when downloading and installing software.

Exemple:

$ make list

Numeric: Python package for scientific computing
SDL_image: Image file loading library
SDL_mixer: Sample multi-channel audio mixer library.
SDL_ttf: Library for using TrueType fonts in SDL applications.
angrydd: Angry, Drunken Dwarves, falling blocks puzzle game
atlas: Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS)
easytag: graphical (gtk) mp3 id3 tag editor
flac: library for Free Lossless Audio Codec
id3lib: library for mp3 id3 tags
ms-sys: Utility for writing microsoft compatible boot records
numpy: Python package for scientific computing
pygame: A set of Python modules designed for writing games
qemu: Generic processor emulator
smpeg: SDL MPEG Player Library

Whats New in This Release:

Upgraded the following rules:
MPlayer to version 1.0rc1
MPlayer_win_codecs to version 20061022, also
placed this file on a mirror as previos
versions has been removed from mplayerhq.
dvdauthor to version 0.6.14
gpgme to version 1.1.4
gphoto2 to version 2.3.1
jack to version 0.103.0
kqemu to version 1.3.0pre9, also changed dependencies so that
kqemu now depends on qemu instead of qemu depending on
kqemu. This might make sense for future versions of qemu
which might use kvm instead of kqemu.
qemu to version 0.9.0, qemu will not compile with gcc 4 which is
included with Slackware 12. Also, once compiled it does not
seem very stable.
lame to version 3.97
libdv to version 1.0.0
libdvdread to version 0.9.7
libggi to version 2.2.2
libgphoto2 to version 2.3.1
libgii to version 1.0.2
libgpg-error to version 1.5
libquicktime to version 1.0.0
libmpeg3 to version 1.7
libtheora to version 1.0alpha7
mjpegtools to version 1.9.0rc2
mpeg2dec to version 0.4.1
mplayerplug-in to version 3.40
nas to version 1.9
sylpheed to version 2.4.4
transcode to version 1.0.3
valgrind to version 3.2.3
xvidcore to version 1.1.3

New rules. Support for the following applications:
FileRunner http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~hch/filerunner.html
Image-ExifTool http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
bfr http://www.glines.org/wiki/bfr
cdlabelgen http://www.aczoom.com/tools/cdinsert/
cstream http://www.cons.org/cracauer/cstream.html
cvsgraph http://www.akhphd.au.dk/~bertho/cvsgraph/
ddd http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
However, ddd does not compile on Slackware 12
dvgrab http://www.kinodv.org/
epstool http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm
gocr http://jocr.sourceforge.net/
gscanbus http://gscanbus.berlios.de/
gtimer http://www.k5n.us/gtimer.php
jhead http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/
kdiff3 http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
nedit http://www.nedit.org/
mercurial http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/
privoxy http://www.privoxy.org/
pstoedit http://www.pstoedit.net/
rpc.rstatd http://rstatd.sourceforge.net/
saytime http://www.acme.com/software/saytime/
tor http://tor.eff.org/
wine http://www.winehq.org/

Support for the following libraries:
libavc1394 http://sourceforge.net/projects/libavc1394/
libdvdcss http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
libevent http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
libmpcdec http://www.musepack.net/
libraw1394 http://www.linux1394.org/
libiec61883 http://www.linux1394.org/
onig http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/
x264 http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html

Wildcards in REMOVE_FROM_PACKAGE now also works with newer
versions of tar.
This version of makepack is supposed to work with
Slackware 12. Unfortunately ddd does not compile on
Slackware 12 because of broken header files from X.org or
lesstif. If you really want ddd on Slackware 12 there are
instructions out there on how to modify those header files.

Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable cd, containing a whole operating system that works straight from boot, without the need to install or change anything on the hard disk.
If you like and want to have it on harddisk you can simply copy the /dyne directory on your computer: the simpliest installation ever!
Dyne:bolic is user-friendly: recognizes your hardware devices (sound, video, firewire, and USB), and offers a VAST range of free software applications for multimedia production, audio and video manipulation, sound composition and synthesis, 3D modeling, photography, peer2peer filesharing, web browsing, desktop publishing, word processing, cd burning, email, encryption, remote conferencing, funky games, a world atlas navigator and even more.
Advanced features include: a complete environment with the most advanced multimedia applications available on GNU/Linux, automatic clustering joining the CPU power between any other dyne:bolic on the local network, capability to work well on old PC (Pentium1 64Mb) and even XBOX game consoles, support to save and encrypt personal data and settings on a usb key. Dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists and artists to promote free speech as a tool for the production and not only the fruition of digital and analog
informations.
There is no company nor organization behind dyne:bolic, it is a grassroot effort to spread free software and the spirit of sharing information and knowledge.
Enhancements:
- OpenMosix automatical startup and discovery
- Mozilla suite 1.7.5 (Firefox and Thunderbird dropped)
- Mail encrypted with Sylpheed 1.0.3, GpgME and Enigma
- Virtual keybord for alternative access devices
- Nest now remembers xBox PAL/NTSC switch
- Wider PC laptop hardware support
Updated software:
- Blender-2.36, Ardour-0.9-beta28, Gimp-2.0.6, Xine-1.0
- Fix to Rezound linkage to libFOX 1.2
- Various fixes and documentation updates
- Shiny new splash screen in gtk2
- In case you have a DOCK (/dyne directory copied in your harddisk) you should upgrade it by using the one in this release. Booting the CD just answer YES when youll be prompted to UPGRADE..