Fedora is always loaded with new technologies, and the new Fedora 17 release has the most ever. Get a head start on what's going to appear in Red Hat Enterprise Linux by grabbing a copy of the new Beefy Miracle.

If your comic books are chaos, or your board game collection has gone out of control, GCstar might be the solution you need. GCstar is a free, open source collection management application for GNU/Linux systems.

The new wave of fun geek toys is inexpensive, hackable, tiny Linux-powered ARM computers, and they're red hot. This is the year to go small.

Recently, we covered syncing files to Amazon S3 using the S3 Tools. This time around, we're going to take a look at another handy tool for making backups, Duplicity. While Duplicity supports S3, it also supports a number of other services that S3 Tools do not. If the command line seems like a hassle, don't worry: the Deja-Dup front-end works really well for simple backups.