I have decided to become one of the vast multitude who have been offering opinions on the great Talking Point of these days, Google’s Chrome OS. I feel eminently qualified to do so, because I know just as little about it as everyone else.

To check what RAM memory type yo have installed (and also see other useful information about your system), do a sudo dmidecode

You will want to do a lot of testing with the firewall before you call it good. This is an area that often will cause you problems. If you are using the ufw firewall then you will want to enable it first.

Sidux is based on Debian and you can download a version that uses the XFCE or KDE desktop environments. You can also opt to download the lite version that weighs in at about 600MB or the full version that weighs in at around 2.1GB. Being the greedy app pig that I am, I opted to download the full KDE version.

Quod Libet is a GTK music player written in Python with support for various audio formats, including Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, WAV, MP4 and WMA. Quod Libet has a different interface and a slightly different approach compared to players like Rhythmbox or Banshee, for example.

WattOS Beta 3 is a lightweight Linux Distro geared towards running on less energy and for recycled or low power computers without compromising on features or performance that you’d expect from a full power system. Their motto “Light, Fast, Now” seeks to provide a low-energy full featured Linux distro.

Mandriva, Europe's leading Linux editor, today announced the launch of Mandriva Flash 2009 Spring which takes the highly popular family of Mandriva Flash yet another step further.

It's easy for people who are skeptical of open source software to come up with a dozen reasons -- some perfectly valid -- to not give it a chance. Click2Try is a great way to try open source software in a virtual environment without the hassle of downloads and installation.