Firefox 3.5 (formerly known as 3.1) adds support for new web standards including audio and video tags and downloadable fonts, a private browsing mode, significantly improved JavaScript performance, and more.
Ubuntu will not be upgrading the default Firefox package to 3.5 until Ubuntu 9.10. However, the universe repository in Ubuntu 9.04 includes a special firefox-3.5 [...]

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This article was written by Blair Mathis. Blair works with Laptoplogic.com where she is responsible for all Linux/Ubuntu related articles. At Laptoplogic.com you can find all the information you need on the best gaming laptops and go through the latest Acer laptop reviews.
As always, the latest version of Ubuntu, 9.04, was released on time. It [...]

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The Eee PC 901 is an Intel Atom-based laptop, with 1 GB of RAM, a 20 GB SSD, a 9 inch display, and ships with Asus’ own Linux distribution. Since I bought mine, I’ve installed and used Ubuntu 8.10 and 8.04. The new Ubuntu 9.04 finally has full support for the Eee PC 901.

With previous [...]

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Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” is now available! Major new features in this release include:

Boot performance has been improved, even without Ext4 you should notice a speedup.
The slick new notification system is enabled.
The latest version of the GNOME desktop environment is included.
OpenOffice has been updated to version 3.0.
Ext4 filesystems are now supported (but Ext3 is still [...]

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Sun has just released the major 2.2 update to their VirtualBox virtualization software. The most exciting new feature in this release is 3D acceleration for Linux guest operating systems! See the changelog for all the new features and fixes.

Install VirtualBox
VirtualBox offers Ubuntu package downloads as well as a software repository from their Linux downloads page. [...]

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