• Corefonts package
  
  This is part of the Microsoft True Type Font set for Windows. Sometime in August 2002 MS removed it from their web site, but the EULA allowed it to be distributed in unaltered form.
  
  The corefonts project is created and the MS fonts are hosted in the sourceforge mirrors so that everyone can download those MS fonts and use it under Linux (notably the fonts in KDE/Gnome, Mozilla.org and OpenOffice.org). You do NOT need to have a copy or license of Windows to use the corefonts package.
  
  Corefonts
  
  A similar project is hosted here
  
  You can also import fonts from your Windows partition if you have a dual boot system. For mdk, 'drakfont' will do the job.
  
  NEW -- Bitstream's beta version of the freely available fonts -- the result of a recent agreement with the GNOME Foundation, are now available for a preview.
  
  
• KDE/GTK/Gnome Theme Modification
  
  This is just to customize the look and feel of your KDE desktop. Keramik, Apple Aqua or even MS Windows XP themes are available. For more information, check out KDE-look.org.
  
  Mdk rpms available from: Texstar [Mainlink to access them is here]
  
  Files and descriptions:
  
  
  • Keramik Theme (keramik-3.0.3-3tex.i586.rpm)
    
    
  • Bluecurve Theme from RedHat (freecurve-artwork-0.47-1tex.i586.rpm)
    
    
  • Crystal Icon set (crystal-icons-0.8.0-2tex.i586.rpm)
    
    
  • Geramik Theme (mdk Contribs rpm: Geramik-*.*.i586.rpm)
    
    [Note: Both Keramik theme and Crystal icon set will become the default theme/icon for KDE 3.1.]

• Downloader for X-d4x (mdk rpm)
  
  
• Adobe Acrobat Reader for Linux (Texstar rpm: acroread-5.0-2tex.i586.rpm)
  
  
• gaim, SIM-ICQ, center-icq
  
  These are instant messengers on Linux. These two articles will provide more information for IMs on Linux:
  
  Instant Messaging Clients by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at Freshmeat
  
  IM Client Roundup: Cross-Platform Convenience, by Jim Lynch at Extremetech
  
  
  
  
• HTTrack & khttrack (mdk rpm: httrack, libhttrack)
  
  Ever used TelePort Pro on Windows? It is an offline browser that can download a normal web site for offline browsing, the same goes for HTTrack, but it's open source.
  
  
• Flash 6 plugin
  
  For viewing Flash in browser or in standalone player.
  
  
• JRE 1.4.1 (Sun download page)
  
  You need Java runtime to browse Java-enabled site.

A note on installing mozilla.org plugins

After installing Java runtime JRE 1.4.1, you need to create a symlink in the browser/plugins directory. It can be one of those:

/usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/
/usr/local/mozilla/
~/.mozilla/

To create a symlink, type in terminal:

su
cd (any mozilla path of above)/plugins
ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

In UNIX/Linux, the configuration/setting located in your user/home directory will override the global setting. If you place the symlink in

~/.mozilla/plugins

it will be used by any mozilla.org installed on the system.

Hence you can keep the default mozilla-1.1 installed by mdk9, while installing any build of mozilla (for instance 1.3 alpha) in /usr/local/mozilla directory. Both of them can access the same plugins in your home directory at

~/.mozilla/plugins.

Moreover, you can simply place symlinks of all plugins over there, without worrying where you have installed the plugins and such. This is also a good way to disable a particular plugin (eg. for debugging) because it's easier to remove a symlink in your home directory.