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Google announces a new Google Labs application for Android-powered devices called Listen. Listen lets you search for podcasts and web audio content on the internet. Then allows you to either stream over-the-air or download the audio files and subscribe to your favorite feeds and searches.

More information can be found at http://listen.googlelabs.com

Comprehensive review of Linux distro Pardus 2009 by Dan Lynch:

This week I revisited a distribution I first wrote about back in 2007, Pardus Linux. It’s developed by the Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptography, it has its own package management system called PISI (Packages Installed Successfully, as Intended), and it’s not based on any other Linux distribution, which makes quite a change these days. I was eager to see how it had developed since our last encounter.

Read the full review – Distro Review: Pardus Linux 2009

The first release candidate of linux distro CRUX 2.6 has been made available. Read the Release Announcement and Release Notes.

Download: crux-2.6-rc1.iso (264.1MB MD5) – Download Mirrors

CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is “keep it simple”, which it reflects in a simple tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed packages. The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries. CRUX also has a ports system which makes it easy to install and upgrade applications.

A Chitika study of over 163 million web searches from July 30 to August 16 compared Operating System users with Search Engine usage data.

Obviously Google dominated search across all operating systems. But interestingly per capita Linux search traffic was 94.61% from Google, compared with 78.54% of Windows user searches. From Microsoft’s new search engine Bing about 8% were Windows users but from Linux users it was just a measly 0.77% of searches.

TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL lists and reviews 5 of the best Feed Readers for linux:

Even though there are plenty of good web-based RSS/News readers or aggregators that are available today, a lot of us still prefer to use desktop feed readers. This is mainly because desktop clients are more flexible and offer integration with other installed applications.

For Linux users, there are many desktop-based RSS/news readers to choose from. But before you look further, you may already have one that comes with your distro so better try it first. If it’s not for you, then perhaps you may like any of the following desktop-based RSS feed readers that in my own opinion are some of the best:

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

Audacious is an advanced and powerful audio player. It is lightweight, based on GTK2, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs.

TuxArena reviews Audacious 2.1

Audacious is a powerful audio player for Linux which resembles the older XMMS, only using GTK2 toolkit for its interface. It supports XMMS and implicitly Winamp 2.x skins, coming with support for various audio formats, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) or WMA (Windows Media Audio).

Read the full article: Audacious 2.1 Review – Powerful Audio Replacement for XMMS

nixCraft reviews five top video editors for Linux:

I’m looking for a free video editor similar to – Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple iMovie, Final Cut Pro or Microsoft Movie Maker under Linux Desktop operating system. My tasks are pretty simple such as cutting, filtering, and encoding tasks etc. Can you provide me a list of FOSS software which can be used for video capture and video editing purposes under Fedora or Ubuntu Linux desktop systems?

Read the full article: Top 5 Linux Video Editor Software

MEPIS has announced the release of SimplyMEPIS 8.0.10, an update to the community edition of MEPIS 8.0.

The updated components on the SimplyMEPIS ISOs include recent updates from the Debian Lenny pool and also the security patched Linux kernel 2.6.27.30, rt2860 driver 2.1.2.0, Firefox 3.5.2, Google Gadgets 0.11.0, Alsa 1.0.20, Bind 9.6.1P1, and Knetworkmanager 0.7. In addition some minor tweaks have been applied to the MEPIS Installer and the MEPIS utilities.

Soon MEPIS will begin development of version 8.5, which will be based on the KDE 4.3 desktop. Since support for KDE 3.5 is ending, further updates for MEPIS 8.0 be less frequent.

Download:

32 Bit Version – SimplyMEPIS-CD_8.0.10-rel_32.iso (694MB MD5)

64 Bit Version – SimplyMEPIS-CD_8.0.10-rel_64.iso (687MB MD5)

Mirror List – http://www.mepis.org/mirrors

BabloTech lists and reviews the top linux distributions for netbooks:

Before installing any linux flavor on your netbook you should do some research on the linux distros available.Check out there system requirements as well as their features too.After searching for some hours i have compilled a list of some linux distributions which are customized for netbook and give awesome performance with limited netbook resources.

Read Full Article: Top 15 Linux Distributions for Netbooks

OSrevolution reviews the latest version of linux distribution Zenwalk:

Zenwalk 6 is the latest release of Zenwalk Linux. The changes are major enough that most people will find it worth making the upgrade (note Xfce 4.6). Zenwalk has come a long way with Zenwalk 6, from its beginnings with creator Jean-Philippe Guillemin, also known as Hyperion.

Zenwalk is a fast distribution and has low system requirements so you can use it on older, slower computers with no problem. Zenwalk 6 is no exception to this rule. The new Zenwalk 6 looks a lot like 5.2 so it will feel familiar.

Read the full review here.