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The error "sound init failed (SDL_mixer): No available audio device" and how to fix it.

A short story about performing major hardware upgrade on my desktop computer. Starring Debian unstable and a change from Socket A platform to AM2+, complete with change of motherboard, CPU, RAM, sound, video and hard-drives. And to make things even more interesting, I compile my own kernel.

This is a Tango theme for the excellent email client Claws Mail. It is the first theme to take advantage of the native PNG support added with Claws Mail 3.4.0.

This is a Tango theme for the excellent email client Claws Mail. It is the first theme to take advantage of the native PNG support added with Claws Mail 3.4.0.

It’s a question that crops up very often for any PC user (well, the ones who are a bit geeky): how much memory is that process really using? There is a very nice console tool in the procps package that can answer that question. It’s called pmap and from what I understand it’s found its way [...]

The ultimate battle between Linux desktop RSS readers. It came down to Akgregator and Liferea. Read the scoop, see who won (and why).

PyFontSel is a very simple font selection dialog written in Python and using GTK+ 2.0, very useful when you need to quickly browse the fonts on your system.