Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Do you want to try Ubuntu without removing Windows or partitioning a dual boot
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Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. This is a nice tool for monitoring your system usage.  You can customize it to fit your current theme and display just about any information you want to view.  This application really helps to keep a minimalistic desktop.  In
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Here are some of the top Twitter clients for Linux.  I have tried each of these on Ubuntu 9.10 and each have their downsides.  They all run pretty well, with the exception of Twitux.  It seems to have some memory leak problems.  If you leave Twitux running all the time it will consume large amounts
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UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD. Take you favorite flavor of Linux, and create a bootable USB drive that you can take with you.  You can select from the list of pre-defined distributions, or point
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Ultimate Boot CD is collection of tools to help diagnose and fix problems with computers.  It is a full collection of hardware diagnostic tools that gives you the ability to test memory, wipe hard drives, manipulate partitions, and much more.  This CD includes around one hundred and twenty individual tools in twenty one different categories.
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KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. Knoppix is one of the oldest tools I have used since I started working on computers.  It has been
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