Ubuntu and its derivatives can be installed directly from the hard disk using Grub4Dos boot loader and iso emulation.This procedure is faster and does not require any secondary media such as CD or USB Flash Drives.

Windows could not read a faulty Seagate FreeAgent Drive.However Linux could read the same faulty drive without any problems.All the data was recovered using Ubuntu 11.04.No special recovery software was used.

Fbinst is a really good USB Flash Disk formatting tool.However there are no deb or rpm packages for Fbinst.So you have to compile it from the source to use it in Linux.

A friend of mine was really impressed with Burg Boot Loader.He installed it on his Acer Laptop running Linux Mint.After a few days he came and told me that he was not satisfied with the default burg themes.So I told him about Burg-Manager which can install additional Burg Themes.He was still not satisfied.He wanted to use his own image as background in the boot menu.

Burg Manager is a nice GUI tool to install,manage and customize the Burg Bootloader.It has very interesting features like installation of themes and booting from iso images.