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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

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.

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

KDE announces a service update of the KDE 4.3 Desktop Environment with the release of KDE 4.3.1 which includes bug fixes, performance improvements and translation updates.

A month has passed since the release of KDE 4.3.0, so today the KDE Community announces the immediate availability of KDE 4.3.1, a bugfix, translation and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.3.1 is a monthly update to KDE 4.3. It ships with a desktop workspace and many cross-platform applications such as administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, development tools and more. KDE’s award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages.

Complete Release Announcement