Upgraded to Firefox 3.5

I recently updated both my desktop and my laptop machines to the new Firefox version
Sempron 2400 (Ubuntu 9.04)
I upgraded to Firefox 3.5 on my desktop Linux installation (Ubuntu 9.04 on Sempron 2400) simply by following instructions suggested on Ubuntu community documentation page about installing firefox new versions. I so simply clicked on Firefox's 3.5 APT Link (apt:firefox-3.5) to install all needed packages (As you probably already know I ever prefer the easy way).
At last I replaced firefox symbolic link from terminal by simply typing:

sudo rm /usr/bin/firefox
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 /usr/bin/firefox

EEEPC (EEEBuntu)
Upgrade Firefox on EEEBuntu it's a quite different thing (I haven't upgraded to EEEBuntu 3.0 yet) I did choose to try the command line way as suggested in Lifehaker and Kabatology blogs.
I backed-up my firefox settings:

cp -r ~/.mozilla/firefox/ ~/firefox_backup

and then launched the long download-and-install command (of course it must be typed all on a single line)

sudo wget -O - http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/
          mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5/linux-i686/
          en-US/firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 | sudo tar xj -C /opt

I didn't resist, so I personalized it in order to install Firefox on the /opt path.

At last I changed the firefox link like in previous installation:

sudo rm /usr/bin/firefox
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox 

Links

• Mozilla Firefox
• Ubuntu documentation
• Lifehacker
• Kabatology
  

Migrating to Linux: hugin

I use my desktop computer (Sempron2400) mainly to manage my personal photos and videos. Often it happens I have to join two or more shots in a single panoramic photo. Of the many panorama tools I tried the one that permitted  me to obtain the best results with minimum effort is hugin.

Hugin is a multi-platform open source panorama software, it implements many complex image joining algorithms but keeps a simple and effective user interface.

Installation

I installed hugin the easy way, by simply selecting its components in the Gnome application installer (the add/remove applications menu voice).