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This holiday season, if you are religious and looking for an OS which

1) Is Free

2) Provides softwares to play music, videos, edit files, browse internet.....

3) provides filtering softwares for parental control

4) provides free softwares to study bible related things

Then the answer is Ubuntu Christian Edition.

"Google Chrome for Linux is finally ready for beta. Like the Windows version, it's fast, secure, stable, simple, extensible, and embraces open standards like HTML5." , writes Google Chrome Blog. Google Chrome works well with both Gnome and KDE, and is updated via the normal system package manager. It has also been developed as a true open source project, using public mailing lists, IRC channels, bug tracker, code repository, and continuous build and test farm -- following in large part the trail blazed by Mozilla.

Google has launched a beta of the Chrome extensions gallery to support the launch, also in beta, of extensions for the Windows and Linux versions of Chrome. Extensions allow users to extend their browser by writing scripts which can become part of the browser experience, in a similar fashion to Firefox Add-Ons. The gallery has more than 300 extensions which users can install from the site with a simple click.

Microsoft got patent of the popular unix command "sudo"  reports many popular websites. ZDnet blogger Adrian writes "It appears that Microsoft has patented sudo, or at least its own version of sudo." He continues "Maybe this is sudo, maybe it’s not, but either way, I can’t see how this is patent-worthy." If it is the actual unix sudo, it is going to make widespread implications in the industry. Think of the situation of Unix user without "sudo".

Puppy Linux is an operating system for computers. Other well-known operating systems are Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, and MS-DOS. Puppy Linux is based on GNU/Linux. It is completely free and open source software.

The previous release was version 4.2.1 (also known as 4.21 or 421) .This release is a massive upgrade, right from its very roots to topmost branches. The place to read about what has happened is the blog, http://puppylinux.com/blog