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. You can either let it download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you've already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn't on the list.
Problem:
Easily integrating your Linux host into a Windows environment ...
Solution:
This solution allows one to very easily navigate any number of windows/samba servers and shares with any file management application (and from the shell).
Swiss File Knife - the open source file tree processor
is a free multi function command line tool that belongs onto every usb stick. download from sourceforge. this package contains binaries, source and buildscripts for windows and linux. You may also download just the windows executable sfk.exe or the linux binary for Ubuntu or DSL. No installation, no registry entries, no DLL's - one exe handles all.
RESTORE was developed by Holonyx Ruffdogs and is a free, open source, enterprise network backup and recovery solution for Windows, Novell, Mac OS X (data fork), Unix and Linux systems. RESTORE is scalable to a complete backup solution for multiple workstations, servers, and data centers. It operates over local area networks, wide area networks, and the Internet. Holonyx Ruffdogs is placing RESTORE into the open-source community.
Features
* On Demand
o Can load keys when ssh is launched.
o Can load keys when the Apple Keychain is unlocked.
* Security
o Can unload keys on sleep (or after a period of sleep).
o Can unload keys when the screenssaver kicks in.
o Can unload keys when the Apple Keychain is locked.
o Can lock the Apple Keychain when the screensaver kicks in.
o Can ask for confirmation when keys are accessed (useful for agent forwarding).
* Display
o Icon can be displayed in the statusbar, dock, or both.
* Integration
o Apple Keychain
+ Can store SSH key passphrases in the Apple Keychain.
+ Can lock/unlock the Apple Keychain from a menu item.
o Global Environment
+ Can add the necessary variables to the global environment, so you can use SSHKeychain with Project Builder, etc.
o SSH Tools
+ Works seamless with the commandline tools (adding keys from the commandline also updates the UI).
+ Can generate new keypairs from the UI.
* Networking
o Tunneling
+ Local ports can be forwarded over a ssh connection from the tunnel menu.
+ Tunnels can be launched when your keys are loaded.
+ The tunnel menu indicates the status of your tunnels.
+ Tunnels are automatically closed when the system goes to sleep.
+ Multiple ports can be forwarded over one ssh connection.
o Can handle agent requests through Agent Forwarding.
When system performance on Linux is affected by using too many file descriptors, usually an error can be seen in the log file '(Too many open files)'. Although this affects the entire system, it is a fairly common problem.
MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file matching the wildcard has a more recent modification date, it will automatically switch to that file. That way you can, for example, monitor a complete directory of files. Merging of 2 or even more logfiles is possible. It can also use colors while displaying the logfiles (through regular expressions), for faster recognition of what is important and what not. It can also filter lines (again with regular expressions). It has interactive menus for editing given regular expressions and deleting and adding windows. One can also have windows with the output of shell scripts and other software. When viewing the output of external software, MultiTail can mimic the functionality of tools like 'watch' and such.
For a complete list of features, look here.