Raspberry Pi Bundle- Preloaded XMBC

Put these two products together and you have a fully functioning XBMC media server for next to nothing:

Raspberry Pi Model B (512MB)
Pre-Programmed 4GB SD Card, Clear Case, USB Mains Plug AU
Features: Credit card size video computer, HDMI, Ethernet & 2 USB ports, Linux's Debian software, 512MB RAM
Clock Frequency Max: 700MHz
 

XBMC Raspberry Pi Bundle
For Use With: Raspberry Pi
Kit Contents: Mini Keyboard, Preloaded XMBC SD Card, HDMI Cable, CAT5E Cable

MintBox 2 Linux Mint Computer

The MintBox 2 is a mini-computer which connects to TVs or computer monitors via HDMI or DisplayPort. It comes with 8 USB ports as well as in/out audio jacks, eSATA, Ethernet, Wifi and Bluetooth so you can connect it easily to any network or device.  It’s small, about the size of a router, so it fits behind your keyboard, your TV and it’s easy to bring with you anywhere you go.  It’s extremely sturdy and completely silent. There is no plastic, the case is entirely made of solid die-cast aluminum and acts as a heat sink, so there are no fans inside of it.


More here: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2441

List of Rescue CD/Live/Bootable Disks With Utilities

GParted Live on USB
GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions.  With GParted you can resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss, enabling you to: grow or shrink your C: drive, create space for new operating systems & attempt data rescue from lost partitions

SystemRescueCd
SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the hard disk partitions. It comes with linux software such as system tools (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It can be used for both Linux and windows computers, and on desktops as well as servers. It supports all important file systems (ext2/ext3/ext4, reiserfs, btrfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs).

YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator (Windows Only)
YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer) can be used to create a Multiboot USB Flash Drive containing multiple operating systems, antivirus utilities, disc cloning, diagnostic tools, and more.  YUMI uses syslinux to boot extracted distributions stored on the USB device, and reverts to using grub to Boot Multiple ISO files from USB, if necessary.  Aside from a few distributions, all files are stored within the Multiboot folder, making for a nicely organized Multiboot Drive that can still be used for other storage purposes.

MultiSystem – Create a MultiBoot USB from Linux
Multisystem is an awesome tool created by LiveUSB.info and was created for use within Linux. It also uses Grub2 instead of Grub Legacy, and can be run from within Ubuntu Linux to create a Custom Multiboot UFD containing your favourite Bootable Live Linux Distributions.



More here:/r/Linux, what is your favorite rescue CD/Live/Bootable disk with utilities? I just downloaded Rescatux, but I remember there being MANY. So what are the most useful? I will download the highest recommended ones!

Ardour

"..Import a single video and optionally extract the soundtrack from it. Display a frame-by-frame (thumbnail) timeline of the video. Use a Video-monitor window, or full-screen display, of the imported video in sync with any of the available ardour timecode sources. Export the video, cut start/end, add blank frames and/or mux it with the soundtrack of the current-session.."

http://ardour.org/

Raspberry Pi: the Perfect Home Server

Ever since the announcement of the Raspberry Pi, sites all across the Internet have offered lots of interesting and challenging uses for this exciting device. Although all of those ideas are great, the most obvious and perhaps least glamorous use for the Raspberry Pi (RPi) is creating your perfect home server.

Read the rest here: http://m.linuxjournal.com/content/raspberry-pi-perfect-home-server

great-linux-operating-systems-for Netbooks

One of the most common questions asked on the Linux based sub-reddits at Reddit.com is "Which Linux distribution would be the best for a netbook?".  The following distributions have either been installed on a netbook or should run perfectly well on an netbook. There links to the original reviews so that you can see any issues that were found.

http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2013/10/12-great-linux-operating-systems-for.html

Anti Virus Solution for Linux

If you've been asked by someone to investigate why their Windows machine is running slow.. run.  If, by some chance, you are unable to escape try using Clam Antivirus.  It's in the Software Center and you just need to run:
sudo freshclam
before you perform a  Recursive Scan so that the virus definitions are up to date.

But really: run.  Don't look back, run.

Thanks to: Makeuseof.com for their informative tutorial.