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Windows (portable): We were seriously impressed with Portable Ubuntu when we first saw it, running a Windows-aware Ubuntu from a thumb drive. Now a third version is out with an updated OS and apps, fewer bugs, and more improvements.

Like its predecessor, Portable Ubuntu “Tres” can run from a thumb drive, if you’ve got about 3.7 GB free on a bigger thumb drive. Otherwise, you can unpack the 560 MB package somewhere on your Windows system and run Portable Ubuntu from there. It launches a taskbar right on your Windows desktop, opens windows that are framed to fit your theme, can write and read from Windows folders, and has a “persistent” storage space, so that settings you change and apps you install to Portable Ubuntu remain in place the next time you launch it.

After downloading Portable Ubuntu in a self-extracting package, double-click to extract it to a thumb drive or elsewhere. Once it’s planted in its own folder, run the “pubuntu” executable you find inside, and click “Allow” on the access prompts you receive. You’ll likely have to play around with resizing the Ubuntu toolbar to get it where it’s convenient on your desktop, though sizing perfectionists, take note: the arrows on the sides of the toolbar can collapse it to the sides of your screens, waiting for you to slide it back out for use. When you’re all done, hit the red power-type button on the right edge and choose Shutdown.

Particularly new to Tres is that it runs the latest stable version of Ubuntu, 9.10 (though 10.04 is scheduled for release later this month), newer kernels and initialization scripts, and lots of bug fixes that have built up over a few releases. If 3.7 GB is a bit too much for you to space out, grab the “Dos Lite” version from the download page, which takes up about 2 GB of space.

Portable Ubuntu Tres is a free download that works on Windows systems, from a thumb drive or hard drive. For a screencast and screenshots of how it looks and works on Windows 7, check out our previous post on Portable Ubuntu.

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