It is effectively as fast as speed champ Safari on the Mac . Much faster than Firefox , Camino or Opera on a Mac. It is not as noticeably faster than Firefox on Ubuntu.

Google Released Today its Chrome Browser for Mac and Linux
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Fedora 11 To Be Released Today
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Today, Fedora 11 will be unleashed upon the web. The release has been postponed for a few days, but this time it's for real. It comes packed with lots of changes.
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BOSS Linux is a single-CD Debian-based distribution primarily designed for an Indian language user, though everything from the installer to the desktop defaults to English. BOSS 1.1, which was released last month by the Indian government-sponsored National Resource Center for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS), includes several utilities and desktop enhancements, such as a document converter and the 3-D desktop Beryl, which make it a very usable distro, despite a few rough edges.
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