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Baobab is a C/gtk+ application to analyse disk usage in any Gnome environment. Baobab can easily scan either the whole filesystem tree, or a specific user-requested directory branch either on the local system or on a remote system. It also includes a complete file-search functionality and auto-detects in real-time any changes made to your home directory as far as any mounted/unmounted device. Baobab also provides a full graphical treemap window for each selected folder.

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PySolFC, a fork of PySol Solitaire is a collection of 1048 solitaire card games. PySolFC is free opensource and is released under GNU GPL License. As pointed by our readers, UltraSol which is a collection of 400 or more Solitaire games looks like a re-brand of PySolFC. PySolFC contains games that use the 52 card International Pattern deck, games for the 78 card Tarock deck, eight and ten suit Ganjifa games, Hanafuda games, Matrix games, Mahjongg games, and games for an original hexadecimal-based deck. Its features include modern look and feel (uses Tile widget set), multiple cardsets and tableau backgrounds, sound, unlimited undo, player statistics, a hint system, demo games, a solitaire wizard, support for user written plug-ins.

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Ultrasol is a collection of nearly 400 different solitaire or patience games. There are games that use the 52 card International Pattern deck, games for the 78 card Tarock deck, eight and ten suit Ganjifa games, Hanafuda games, Matrix games, Mahjongg games, and games for an original hexadecimal-based deck.
It includes many different sets of playing card images and all under standard solitaire type window.

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Dell Laptops with Internal Microphones especially the Dell Vostro 1500 with Intel HDA drivers may not work by default. This could be caused by the microphones being disabled on the Mixers. This might work on other Laptop hardware but unfortunately, I don’t have access to another laptop. But, if you came across a laptop on which this worked then please post a comment and we can add it to the list of supported laptops. Also, if there was a different way with which you have fixed, please post that as well.

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Kid3 is a free opensource tool to easily tag multiple MP3 files (e.g. full albums) without typing the same information again and again and allow you to control and edit ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags. It’s one of those things I started doing so enthusiatically and then give up after a few tracks and finally this should help me get around this.

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