- Ailurus makes Linux easier

Ailurus is an application which tells its users about tricks for enhancing their use of Ubuntu / Fedora Linux. It puts tricks in tool-tip text and a "Tip of the day" window. It also displays information about the system's BIOS, motherboard, CPU, and battery. It has an interface for changing some GNOME settings. It can install and remove some applications which are not provided in the official Ubuntu apt repository. It can detect the speed of apt mirrors and find the fastest one. It can enable and disable some third party repositories.

Features:
  * Help users learn some Linux skills
  * Install some nice applications
  * Enable some third party repositories
  * Display basic hardware information
  * Clean APT/YUM cache
  * Backup and recover APT/YUM status
  * Change GNOME settings

Installation:
Ubuntu / Mint:
Open a terminal window and copy and pasting the following commands into your terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ailurus
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ailurus

Fedora:
Open a terminal window and copy and pasting the following commands into your terminal:

su -c 'wget http://homerxing.fedorapeople.org/ailurus.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/ailurus.repo'
su -c 'yum makecache'
su -c 'yum install ailurus'

In order to launch Ailurus, click menu "Applications -> System Tools -> Ailurus".

source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2010/05/135781677518151.html