In Windows and Mac, downloading and installing Firefox 3.5 is very easy. But if you new to Ubuntu or Linux, it is littlebit difficult to install Firefox 3.5. There are several reasons for downloading and updating to firefox 3.5 and one of main reason is Firefox 3.5 is fastest browser then any other browser.

How to Download & Install Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu?

There are two methods for downloading and installing Firefox in ubuntu.

A. Installing via Repository

If you are downloading firefox for first time on your Linux box then add following repository to source list. Others please skip to step 3

1. Open your Terminal and run following command

echo ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list

echo ‘deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Add the Launchpad PPA GPG key:

sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 247510BE

3. Now run below command on your terminal

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5

B. Using Wget

1. Either you can download Firefox 3.5 via any other browser if you have on your Ubuntu or else run following command on terminal to download Firefox 3.5.

wget -O – ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 | tar xj –C ~

2. Double-click the Firefox file inside the Firefox folder in your home directory, or run this command:

~/firefox/firefox

That’s it, a latest version of Firefox 3.5 is installed and ready for use on your Linux Machine.

If you want to install Ubuntu with a Windows operating system, mainly there are two options available: install Ubuntu as a dual boot with windows operating system or you can install it as a virtual machine. Both of these options have a negative approach: inconvenience and memory usage respectively.

Portable Ubuntu Remix is an Ubuntu system which allows you to install Ubuntu operating system as a standalone windows application. This system is built with the Colinux Kernel, Xming X server and Pulseaudio server for Windows. It is a useful tool for you when need to use Ubuntu on an machine that has Windows as default operating system.

All you need to do is to simply download Portable Ubuntu Remix, run the extraction, and put the system files in a permanent location (i.e., C:\Ubuntu)

After extracting the files to a stable folder, double click on run_portable_ubuntu.bat to start up Ubuntu. You’ll have to wait 30 seconds or more depending on your system capabilities, while the operating system loads.

Now you have access to Ubuntu’s program menu. All the standard applications that come with Ubuntu are bundled with this package.

Download Portable Ubuntu

An Intel open-source developer has announced that Linux will be the first operating system to officially support USB 3.

Sharp states that she is “working with Keve Gabbert (the OSV person in my group at Intel) to make sure that Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Red Hat” pick up the driver, meaning that Linux users will likely be the first to have their Super Speed dreams become a reality.

USB 3, or SuperSpeed USB, should bring significant power and performance enhancements to the USB standard. Data transfer rates are up to ten times faster than USB 2, with potential data transfer rates of up to 4.8Gbits/sec being touted.

Fedora 11, previously codenamed Leonidas, has hit final release. The final release of Fedora 11 brings with it a host of incremental improvements intended to build on the already solid Fedora 10.

Chief among these is the move to the Ext4 file system, which Fedora claims should improve performance and responsiveness across the board.

Indeed, performance has been something of a buzzword for Leonidas. Red Hat is claiming PCs running the OS should hit the login screen in around 20 seconds, which is an impressive feat considering its predecessor was around 10 seconds slower and still felt fairly swift.

Much of the credit for this goes to the Plymouth boot tool introduced six months ago in Fedora 10, but refined here. Plymouth is a kernel mode graphical boot system that speeds up the boot process by redefining how Linux handles graphics cards. Fedora 11 brings with it support for a bunch of older ATI, Nvidia and Intel graphics chips.

The software has also had an overhaul. Fedora 11 includes the Gnome 2.26.1 and KDE 4.2.3 desktop environments, as well as the Firefox 3.5 beta 4 browser and Open Office 3.1. Fedora 11′s now on the Linux 2.6.29 kernel.

The PackageKit package manager has also been tweaked and can now root out and install missing fonts and codecs if you happen across a file Fedora doesn’t recognize.

Another interesting feature is the ability to perform a minimal 500MB install, which should appeal to those looking to set up a server on older hardware. Of course, the 500MB version is seriously light on features and software.