Curious to try XFCE again, I fired it up. I already had it installed on my Arch system, and it was up to date thanks to regular runs of pacman -Syu.

Well, I quite liked it. Thunar, the file manager, was agreeably quick and susceptible to being driven by the keyboard. The transparency of the terminal was cool. There were a huge number of window manager tweaks available. I only gave up my experiment because for some strange reason I couldn't get any sound out of the machine any more....

it is adopted
www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/mc-4.6.1-debian_fixes-1.patch
# [ ] mc-4.6.1-debian_fixes-1.patch 25-Feb-2007 18:22 329K
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/mc-4.6.1-debian_fixes-1.patch
to
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/snapshots
# [ ] mc-2007-06-23-14.tar.gz 23-Jun-2007 10:46 3.8M
# MD5 sum: 3d4e56a1152564331abe82e6570898ad mc-2007-06-23-14.tar.gz...

An e-mail client, aka Mail User Agent (MUA), aka e-mail reader is a frontend computer program used to manage e-mail.

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gscan2pdf is a simple but a very efficient GUI to scan documents of multiple pages and convert them into PDFs or DjVu format. You can also import images from image files into PDF files and vice versa. gscan2pdf only takes two clicks are required to scan several pages and then save all or a selection as a PDF file, including metadata if required.
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KMess is a MSN Messenger client for KDE Users in Linux. It enables Linux users to chat with friends online who are using MSN Messenger in Windows or Mac OS or Linux. The strength of KMess is it’s integration with the KDE desktop environment, focus on MSN Messenger specific features and an easy-to-use interface.
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