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MINIX 3 Features POSIX compliant Networking with TCP/IP X Window System Languages: cc, gcc, g++, perl, python, etc. Over 400 UNIX programs Many improvements since V2 Full multiuser and multiprogramming Device drivers run as user processes High degree of fault tolerance Full C source code supplied

CheckGmail is an alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux and other *nix systems. It is fast, secure and uses minimal bandwidth via the use of Atom feeds. CheckGmail is a system tray application that checks a Gmail account for new mail. When new mail is present the tray icon changes, an optional animated popup is displayed and a tooltip displays the number and details of new messages. Configuration is GUI-based and the application is designed to be simple, elegant and unobtrusive.

Mastak Absolute Perl is the unique tool for creating, editing and debugging Perl scripts and programs. Mastak Absolute Perl has intuitive interface and combines the ease of use with full featured development environment while using only small part of system resources. Mastak Absolute Perl features multiple document interface and syntax highlighting as well as web browser integration. Easy to use text editor and powerful Code Explorer together with ability to launch the integrated Perl interpreter and debugger both in editor window and in console allow the programmer to work fast and effectively. The software is highly configurable. You can set it up to use your favorite colors, fonts, macros, hot keys, files and folders MRU lists. The program remembers its previous state up to cursor position on re-launch. Mastak Absolute Perl supports all major Cyrillic encodings (including WIN1251, DOS866, ISO8859-5 and KOI8-R). The document encoding is automatically determined on file loading. The program has a simple FTP client built-in that allows fast uploads and downloads of CGI scripts to and from web servers. The built-in FTP client fully supports various Cyrillic encodings. Mastak Absolute Perl runs on the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000. The only requirement is that Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 4.0 or higher) should be installed on the machine.

Perl is a useful language for working on Linux and other flavours of UNIX as well as on many other platforms where it is available (including the Palm Pilot ;-)). Perl is useful for text processing and generation, GUI programming, system administration, programming for the Web, working with databases, and most other things which are not very time sensitive.

I use this set-up very successfully with the Thunderbird email client, on Windows and Linux

CGI::Ajax – a perl-specific system for writing AJAX- or DHTML-based web applications.

PerlMagick is an objected-oriented Perl interface to ImageMagick. Use the module to read, manipulate, or write an image or image sequence from within a Perl script. This makes it very suitable for Web CGI scripts. You must have ImageMagick 6.2.0 or above and Perl version 5.005_02 or greater installed on your system for either of these utilities to work.