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Lenovo, the successor to IBM's PC division, released the N5901 to set a new standard in wireless input, putting a mouse and keyboard in a form factor that can easily be manipulated with a single hand.

Fedora 16 was released a few days ago and I was looking forward to this release. I used to be a Fedora user in the early days, when I had more time to play with my PC. Ever since I switched to Debian and then Ubuntu, I just fell in love with apt-get's smart dependency resolution. I was finally out of the RMP hell. I did dabble with Fedora here and there, once in a while but 14 and 15 were both quite unstable for me. So, I distanced myself from Fedora.

Last week we saw release of freshest version of Fedora, community Linux distributions supported by RedHat. The most popular option of Fedora is GNOME, and Fedora 16 includes the most recent version of it, GNOME 3. But as soon as I am KDE fan, I could not miss a chance to try another option of Fedora, this time with KDE desktop environment.

One of the founders of the nascent Diaspora social network has died at age 22. I have included the story on Ilya Zhitomirskiy's untimely death from the Associated Press, followed by my thoughts on Diaspora and where it stands given that Google+ is pretty much steam-rolling over the rest of the social-networking space.

Fabio Erculiani, founder of Sabayon Linux, discusses his desktop Linux setup and the many ways he uses Sabayon.

Pinguy OS 11.10 has been released today and comes with GNOME Shell (on top of GNOME 3.2.1) as default.

Looking for a lightweight wiki that is easy to install and use? You might want to give LionWiki a try.

As we've stated in our previous article, Allison Randal from Canonical announced a few days ago the highlights for the upcoming Kubuntu 12.04 LTS and Lubuntu 12.04, as well as for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS and Edubuntu 12.04 LTS (presented in a separate article).

Few days ago I was trying the LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) volume encryption on RHEL. It worked pretty well, until I [re]boot the system (to mount the encrypted volume automatically from /etc/fstab) and I was presented with the famous Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue): screen. I figured it out sorta hard way, so it's mainly for the future reference and for those who experience[d] the same problem.

Classicmenu Indicator is a handy appindicator that allows one to quickly access applications in a traditional "old" GNOME 2 way. Basically, Classicmenu Indicator behaves just like a regular GNOME 2 menu and features an Ubuntu logo icon for folks that are still familiar with regular system menus.

The web browser segment of the Android market is highly competitive since the vast majority of users demand accessibility to the net from their mobile devices at some point in time.

As promised, starting with this part of our C development article, we will get started with learning, without further introduction. I couldn't find no better way to start other than this, because types, operators and variables are an essential part of C and you will use them all the time when writing your own programs. For example, you can write a simple C program without defining your own functions, but it's harder to do that without some variables, unless you wanna stick to "Hello, world!". A variable is nothing more than a location in memory holding a value that can be altered (hence the name).

Be happy developers, B2G is not designed to be another platform. It is actually a project to extend what developers can do with the web, especially on mobile devices. Even apps like phone dialers can be created with HTML5, B2G aims at bringing the web to the palm of your hand so that the web developers are no less than those developing OS-specific stacks. B2G is not intended for applications that will only run on B2G or Firefox, but on any device with HTML5 capabilities, including desktops. After Adobe shut down Flash for mobile devices admitting that HTML5 is the future, it seems Mozilla was far ahead from the beginning, eh?

Today I would like to give a short tutorial on how I've combined two of my most nerdy passions:

Linux & Magic the Gathering

Peter Hewitt is a retired educator and IT professional who came to us not particularly interested in helping develop Meacher the Mouse Teacher, but in rebuilding his mouse teaching program Mulawa Dreaming Easy for Linux. As it stood, it was a Windows only app but having over 200 thousand downloads of his varied projects, Peter believed that it was worth expanding to the Linux world. He emailed me and told me that when he had something ready, he would email me.

I think it took him 3 days.

Here is another light, fast, and fun distribution for everyone to try, ArchBang leaves a long-lasting impression. ArchBang delivers a useful Live CD, the OpenBox window manager, and all of the basic applications you might need, all on top of the powerful and robust Arch Linux core.

Gwibber is the most populer microblogging client for the Linux. It supports many platforms like Facebook, Google buzz, Twitter, Identi.ca etc. You can simultaneously post your status to all the social networks and get updated status from all your social networks.

SuperTuxKart 0.7.3 final has been released after being in development for 4 months. This release features numerous new features and improvements and a surprise new 'Minigolf' track that was included at the last moment.

During the Ubuntu Developer Summit event for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, the developers talked about removing the non-PAE i386 supported kernel flavor.

Spice Server and client upgraded up to 0.10.0. Libvirt upgraded up to 0.9.7-2 via Debian Unstable Per Daniel Berrange: In the same way that SSH allows you to setup hostname aliases in $HOME/.ssh/config, libvirt will now allow you to setup URI aliases in $HOME/.libvirt/libvirt.conf (if you are running unprivileged) or /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf (if you are running as root).