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Althea

Althea is an IMAP email client for X that uses the GTK widget set. It was built with the IMAP protocol in mind in order to avoid many of the pitfalls experienced by POP clients that added IMAP support. Althea allows easy access to a nearly unlimited number of servers, and has a very small memory footprint. As of version 0.5.0 Althea also supports IMAP over SSL.
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Audacity

Audacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, or MP3 files. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. The GUI was built with wxWindows and the audio I/O currently uses OSS under Linux. Audacity runs on Linux/*BSD, MacOS, and Windows.
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CD-ROM_Control

CD-Rom Control is an X control panel for mounting, unmounting, and ejecting CD-ROMs.
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Celestia

Celestia is an OpenGL-based 3D space simulation for Unix and Win32 that lets you travel through the solar system, to the stars, and even beyond the galaxy. Visit over 100,000 stars, 100 solar system bodies, and all known extrasolar planets.
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ChuchuncoCity2000

Chuchunco City is an OpenSource, cross-platform fighting game developed in Chile. It is inspired by popular fighting games, such as Street Fighter and King of Fighters, but has some unique features and concepts. Chuchunco City aims at portability, speed, and better playability. The code compiles for MS-DOS (with DJGPP) and UNIX (using X11 libraries).
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Cooledit

Cooledit is a text editor for the X Window System. It contains a built-in Python interpreter for macro programming, and it includes a rich set of utilities and features. It has multiple edit windows and a beautiful, intuitive user interface that requires no tutoring to learn to use. It can be used as a programmer's IDE and has syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages. It contains an interactive graphical debugger for C/C++ programs.
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DaveGnukem

Dave Gnukem is a 2D scrolling platform game, similar to Duke Nukem 1. It includes a level editor. It runs on Linux and Windows, and uses the SDL library.
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Devolution

devolution is a powerful window manager with theming for the windows and plugins for the desktop to make a beautiful and functional desktop.
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Dillo

Dillo is a very fast, extremely small Web browser that's completely written in C. The source and binary are less than 300 kilobytes each. It is a graphical browser built upon GTK+, and it renders a good subset of HTML, excluding frames, JavaScript, and JVM support.
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Drip

Drip is a DVD to divx conversion frontend and backend application set. The frontend is GNOME based, and the backend encoding engine is a textmode only tool. Using the GUI just makes it all easier, and adds some logic, like automatic filenaming and subpicture detection. Drip does the whole job in 1 go - no user interaction is needed during runtime.
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Emacs

Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Emacs has special code editing modes, a scripting language (elisp), and comes with many packages for doing mail, news and more, all in your editor.
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FVWM_Themes

FVWM Themes is the configuration framework from fvwm developers, designed to be fully configurable and feature-rich. It implements a loadable theme component design.
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Feta

Feta is a frontend to the Debian package management system dpkg, the Debian configuration system Debconf, and the Debian package distribution system APT. It provides a unified interface to over a dozen programs that collectively make up the Debian packaging system and over 30 different commands, plus additional command aliases for compatability with the original tools.
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Freenet

Freenet is a peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of information over the Internet in an efficient manner, without fear of censorship. It is completely decentralized (there is no person or computer essential to its operation), meaning that Freenet cannot be attacked like centralized peer-to-peer systems such as Napster. Freenet also employs intelligent routing and caching to learn to route requests more efficiently, automatically mirror popular data, make network flooding almost impossible, and move data to where it is in greatest demand.
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Gaim

Gaim is a GTK-based messenger application. It is actively being developed and supports many common features of other clients, including many unique features. It also supports multiple protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Napster, and Zephyr.
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Galeon

Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine). It is fast, has a light interface, and is fully standards-compliant.
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Gmerlin

Gmerlin is an audio/video player for Linux with dynamically loadable plugins and a playlist. It can play many media formats like MPEG, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and AVI. In addition, it can rip audio CDs and convert media formats. Currently, Gmerlin can write its output to WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and Quicktime files.
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GnomeToaster

Gnometoaster is a full CD creation suite for X11 and GNOME. It can be used to copy and create data, audio, and mixed mode CDs on the fly or with precaching in both TAO and DAO mode. Data tracks can easily be created with the built-in file manager. GNOME drag-and-drop is supported throughout the program. Gnometoaster can also write MP3 files on the fly, is fully multisession capable, and can be used to encode all sorts of filetypes directly from audio audio tracks on a CD.
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GnuPoker

gnupoker is a poker game, where you can play against AI or over the network.
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GtkBalls

GtkBalls is a simple but awesome logic game, where you try to remove as many balls from the game field as you can. This development version is released in hopes that people will submit bug reports and patches to improve the next stable release.
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GtkDiskFree

GtkDiskFree is a small GUI application written with the Gtk+ library which shows how much free space is available on your filesystems, as well as some other information related to the filesystem.
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Heroes

Heroes is similar to the "Tron" and "Nibbles" games of yore, but includes many graphical improvements and new game features including 12 original soundtracks, 94 levels (in 10 different tilesets), and five gaming modes including Quest (the classical Nibbles), or Kill'em all (squish the lemmings).
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KAlarm

KAlarm lets you configure alarms and/or reminder messages to be displayed at scheduled times, with options for the message font and colour, whether to beep when the message is displayed, and whether to cancel the message if it can't be displayed on time (for example, if you are not logged in at the specified time). Alarms can be configured using the graphical user interface, the command line, and/or DCOP interface (for interaction with other KDE programs). Note that this application is unrelated to KAlarm for KDE1.
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KPooka

KPooka is an animated logic game for KDE. It's kind of a cross between Sokoban and Pengo with regards to gameplay. You move your red blobby around, pushing the green blobbies out of the way and finding the exit. The game consists of 18 levels. Anyone that feels like contributing other levels is most welcome.
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Kastrolog

Kastrolog is the linux/KDE port of W.D.Pullen's astrolog astrology program. In addition to the original's features, kastrolog provides better display and printing, zone info management, multiple windows and internationalization.
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Kemulator

Kemulator is a KDE emulator frontend written in C++ using the QT/KDE toolkit. A graphical user interface (GUI) provides users with the ability to configure an emulator without ever touching the command line. The main interface simply presents the user with a list of available ROMs (games). The user selects a ROM and the emulator emulates that ROM.
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Ketm

ketm (kill everything that moves) is an arcade-style 2D shooter. It is based on SDL and it has been tested with Linux and Win2K.
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Knoda

knoda is a database frontend for KDE based on the hk_classes library.
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MidiMountain_Sequencer

MidiMountain is a sequencer to edit standard MIDI files. Its easy-to-use interface should help beginners to edit and create MIDI songs (sequences), and it is designed to edit every definition known to standard MIDI files and the MIDI transfer protocol, from easy piano roll editing to changing binary system exclusive messages.
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MisterHouse

MisterHouse is a Unix/Windows home automation program written in Perl. It can respond to voice commands, Web browsers, time of day, serial port and X10 data, external files, etc., and can speak via Text to Speech engines.
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Mozilla

Mozilla is a Web browser that is being developed by the Free Software Community with the cooperation and support of Netscape. Initially, its development was based on an early version of Netscape Communicator 5.0. But most of it was disposed of halfway, and the current Mozilla is a completely new software based on the "NGLayout" layout engine developed for Netscape Communicator 6. "Netscape 6" (the Web browser from Netscape) and "Beonex Communicator" are based on Mozilla. Many other projects use/embed Mozilla's rendering engine.
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NEdit

NEdit is a Unix text editor for programmers and general users. It combines a standard, easy-to-use, graphical user interface with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day. It includes a macro language with a complete library of editing functions, state-of-the-art syntax highlighting for 30 common languages and text processors, and the best mouse-interactivity available in a Unix text editor.
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NewVideoRecorder

NewVideoRecorder is a high quality video capture toolkit for Linux. It includes deep buffering of audio and video to reduce frame dropping, a smooth dropping algorithm to keep the video smooth if dropping is required, and dynamic stretching of the audio stream to exactly match the video stream. It can use v4l1 and v4l2 devices as video sources, and OSS devices as an audio source. It can produce QuickTime, AVI, NuppelVideo 0.4 files, and MPEG-1 files.
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NewsStar

Newsstar fetches news and posts it to a local news server, usually INN. What makes newsstar special is that it can make multiple simultaneous connections, not only to one server, but to several, supporting up to 10 "threads". Before fetching each article, it checks that it hasn't already been downloaded by another thread or in a previous session. It can also "pipeline" article requests to make better use of available bandwidth.
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Ogle

Ogle is a real DVD player that supports DVD menus and navigation. It can access CSS-protected DVDs if you have libdvdcss installed, take screen shots, and view movies in fullscreen mode. It handles angles correctly and automatically uses the correct aspect. You can switch subtitles and audio tracks. It runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris.
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RIP!

Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a floppy boot/rescue/backup system. It has support for a lot of filesystem types (reiserfs, ext2/3, XFS, JFS, UFS, MS DOS, umsdos, and vfat) and contains a bunch of utilities for system recovery. It might also be possible to install and boot it from a LS-120 floppy drive. It has been designed for non-networked stand-alone home PC hard drive booting and rescue. There's also a bootable CDROM version available at the site. Only the cd version has XFS and JFS filesystem support.
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Sylpheed

Sylpheed is 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/APOP support, thread display, and multipart MIME. One of Sylpheed's future goals is to be fully internationalized. The messages are managed in the MH format, so you'll be able to use it together with another mailer that uses the MH format.
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TeXmacs

GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
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Undulate

Undulate is 3D painting and modelling program which allows the user to create and edit complex three dimensional structures from particles which have different shapes and colors. It features a particle editor and shortcut palette for quickly building and editing pictures, models and paintings.
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XBlast

XBlast is a multi-player arcade game for X11 with raytraced graphics. The game can be played with at least two players and up to four players. It was inspired by the video/computer game Bomberman (Dynablaster).
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XNorthernCaptain

X Northern Captain is a file manager for X Windows. XNC has the same ideology as Norton Commander but also many additional and specific functions including a Virtual File System with support for tar, zip, rar, rpm, deb, bzip2, and lha archives, FTP support, built-in xterminal, viewer for JPEG, GIF, BMP, TGA, XPM, and XBM formats, an editor, users menu, extensions association, bookmarks for frequently used directories, and more.
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XPilot

XPilot is a graphical multi-player maneuvering game with less-exciting graphics, but more speed, tactics, and insults. Some people also use it for UDP network analysis. Over the past eight years of playing and development, tons of features have been added to the game, from basic weapons like shotguns and missiles to more recent ones like phasing devices, invisibility, or hyperjump.
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XScreenSaver

XScreenSaver is a modular screen saver and locker for the X Window System. It is highly customizable and allows the use of any program that can draw on the root window as a display mode. More than 120 display modes are included in this package.
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Xine

xine is a free video player which plays mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video, DVDs (unlocked/unencrypted only), video CDs, SVCDs, and AVI files (using Win32 codecs) with synchronized audio and video, and optionally fullscreen using the Xv extensions in Xfree86 4.x.
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Xpdf

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. It also comes with two other programs: pdftops and pdftotext which convert PDF files to postscript and plain text respectively. Xpdf is designed to be small and efficient. It does not use the Motif or Xt libraries. It uses standard X fonts.
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Xrmap

Xrmap is a program running under X that can interactively display portions of the Earth, using the huge CIA world vector map. It is based on an earlier console utility 'rmap'. It features political boundaries, major and minor rivers, glaciers, lakes, canals, etc. The map remains accurate under a very large zoom factor, which can possibly exceed 100. Spherical, rectangular, Mercator and Miller projections are implemented, and all features can be interactively set from the GUI.
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curl

curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, FILE, and GOPHER, as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers, passwords, portnumbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. Program libcurl with C/C++ or by using the APIs available for Dylan, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Rexx, Ruby, and Tcl.
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kArchiveur

KArchiver makes it easy to work with many compressed file formats (.tar., .gz, .bz2, .lha, .rar and .zip). You can view and work with the contents of the archived files, add or remove files and convert between compression formats. KArchiveur can be used as a Konqueror plugin for viewing and extracting archives without leaving Konqueror. It also has wizards that will help you step by step to compile and install software or apply a patch. KArchiver also has an archive browser, which displays all archives in the current directory, and a search tool, which searches a directory and its children for archives.
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