Android

If you are sometimes installing custom ROMs and/or debug over USB, you had to install the full Android SDK manually or add a PPA. Now, on Ubuntu 12.10 thats much easier: In the Ubuntu Software Center are the two most needed tools - search for "Android", click on "technical items" on the left lower corner, and install "android-tools-adb" and "android-tools-fastboot".

Even faster with terminal:

This week bin4ry from theXDA-forum released a nice ROOT-method for many ICS-Android phones, working with a Windows computer. Because I'm almost only on Linux, I've ported his tool to Linux: Root MANY Android for Linux.

Tested it with my Xperia P without problems, hopefully my ported script helps others too :-)