Some applets deposit icons in the system tray of the KDE or Gnome task bar. If you don’t use KDE or Gnome but you still want the system tray applets, check out Trayer.

Evince is quickly becoming Gnome’s standard viewer for PDF and other document formats.

A short command is all it takes to pack your data or extract it from an archive.

The 2005 LinuxWorld UK Expo was another great success for the growing LinuxWorld franchise.

Free software covers such a diverse range of utilities, applications, and other assorted projects that it can be hard to find the perfect tool. We pick the best of the bunch. This month we look at IPodder, FreeBSD 6, and SynCE.