Automatic USB pendrive mounting

I've read on some group that following packages are needed:

udev
udev-initrd
hal
hal-libs
pmount

And it is necessary to add user to groups: usb, haldeamon
I haven't tested it yet.

Windows CE synchronization

SynCE: http://www.synce.org/index.php/SynCE-Wiki

Commercial multimedia codecs

If you are interested in commercial multimedia codecs for Linux you can buy them here:
https://shop.fluendo.com/

Elisa project

Elisa project is very good looking media center application for Linux.
You can find it here:
http://elisa.fluendo.com

SystemTap

Tool for debugging running Linux system similar to Solaris DTrace is SystemTap.
You can find some information about it here:
http://sourceware.org/systemtap/index.html
And some interesting article:
http://lwn.net/Articles/244536/

AIGLX vs XGL, COMPIZ vs BERYL - fakty i mity (Polish)

http://opensuse.wikidot.com/aiglx-vs-xgl

Outcome: AIGLX is better if you have appropriate graphic card with good driver.
Most modern nvidia cards with nvidia driver are ok.

Miro Media Player

Very nice media player (at least looks like):
http://www.getmiro.com/

Ubuntu mulitimedia non free repository

You can find necessary information here:
http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repository.php

And here is direct instruction for Ubuntu 7.04 from above site:

echo "deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ feisty free non-free" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

Polish subtitles in MPlayer

setup following variables in ~/.mplayer/config

fontconfig = "1"
font = "dejavu sans"
subfont-text-scale = "3,3"
subcp = "cp1250"
sub-fuzziness = "2"
vo = "xv"
ao = "alsa"