Swiftfox is like Firefox, but hellishly optimized for your Linux build, you can get it from...

• Go here
• Then download the installer right for your build (if 64-bit, download Athlon 64)

Once downloaded, navigate to the download in Terminal and do,

sudo sh install-swiftfox.sh

Flash

Now to get Flash running first check the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory exists on your machine, if not create it...

mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins

Adobe only provide it as a 32-bit library but with the necessary dependency you can support it so run...

sudo aptitude install nspluginwrapper

Once you've got that you should be capable of handling the 32-bit Flash player,

...grab Flash from here

Download the .tar.gz version, extract it to your desktop, then move the libflashplayer.so into the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory,

sudo mv ~/Desktop/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so  ~/.mozilla/plugins

And finally restart Swiftfox, navigate to a flash video here and enjoy faster browsing with Swiftfox + Flash!

Had some problems installing the Aptana plugin into Eclipse 3.2 on Hardy,

sudo aptitude install eclipse

Then,

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge gcj-4.2-base

Replace,

sudo aptitude install Sun-Java6-jdk

Then install remotely as normal

• http://update.aptana.com/update/studio/3.2/
  • Aptana Forums
  • Aptana Plugin

Finally got a working install of Eclipse 3.4 on Ubuntu Hardy 64-bit, here's how...

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk

Now update your bashrc file,

nano ~/.bashrc

...adding this line at the end,

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/

Then download Eclipse 3.4

wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/technology/epp/downloads/release/ganymede/R/eclipse-java-ganymede-linux-gtk.tar.gz
tar xzvf eclipse-java-ganymede-linux-gtk.tar.gz
mv eclipse eclipse3.4

And start with...

eclipse3.4/eclipse

Thanks goes to jhcore.com for this one

Update

This didn't work for me but it might help someone in different circumstances, will keep hacking at it; eventually it'll work.

There's a tool called David's Batch Processor which allows you to batch process images within the free Graphic Image Manipulation Package (GIMP).

To install on Ubuntu Hardy, first...

sudo aptitude install libgimp2.0-dev

Now download David's Batch Processor from here

Extract the file and Terminal into the directory, now make & install the plugin...

sudo make
sudo make install

...if it still doesn't compile make sure you have build-essentials installed, which can be added via,

sudo aptitude install build-essentials

After all this open GIMP (Application / Graphics / GIMP), Click the Xtns tab (next to File) and you should see Batch Process..; click it and you'll open David's Batch Processor.

I'm probably wrong and everything, but last night I got an update of Firefox 3 thru the Synaptic package manager on Ubuntu Hardy and now it sort of looks like it's out early.

Any ideas?