Last week I wrote the first part of this series which discussed the installation of Mepis, Kubuntu, OpenSuse, and Freespire on my laptops. Now that I have had time to play with each of the operating systems I would like to discuss my impressions of the different distributions. I have not spent any time on OpenSuse yet so I will leave it out of the discussion.

Ubuntu by default has a text based grub menu, which is not very pleasing to eye. On the contrary OpenSUSE has a very beautiful GRUB. This article describes how to emulate SUSE grub on Ubuntu.

Over time, a filesystem accumulates a lot of useless items. FSlint is a nifty little tool that helps you clean your filesystem by pointing out junk in the form of empty directories, corrupt symlinks, files with bad names, duplicate and temp files, and more.

iPod Linux runs on first, second and third generation devices. Versions for additional players are still under development, according to its developers. A functional installation routine is currently only available for Mac computers. Installing iPod Linux does not mean going without the familiar Apple firmware.

"Manage any SQLite database on your computer..."

Here are three racing games for Linux, on this article I assume you use Ubuntu:

Endian Firewall Community is an all-in-one Linux security distribution that turns every system into a full featured security appliance.

Media sharing is changing the world, and from a technology standpoint, it's not hard to do. This article shows how to put an Ajax front end on a simple Web video-hosting application.