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I’m on and off with listening to Linux Outlaws, but their last podcast for the year 2009 went out in style. All other podcasts are doing a roundup of 2009, but for the most part, I feel that folks are half-assin’ it. These guys did it big by highlighting significant events in the world of Free and Open Source Software. The coolest thing, which has me writing this blog post, is the parities of their favorite podcasts. It starts out like something happened to the show (with some radio distortion) and then a bizaro FLOSS Weekly or The Linux Link Tech Show would play, with Dan and Fabian acting as the hosts. I LMAO’d on the train, headed to work, it was good stuff.

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I’m wondering what the state of Linux podcasts are. I never thought about it until Linux Outlaws did their year-end wrap up of 2008. They said it themselves, we’ve lost some good shows and they didn’t expect for their show to be in the same category as “one of the longest running Linux podcasts.”  Neither did I, but things change – Linux has evolved and so have podcasts.  Where do we stand in 2009?

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Through Twitter, I was introduced to an amazing project called “gPodder“.  It’s a podcast receiver/catcher written in Python utilizing PyGTK (for its GUI).  It supports Linux and FreeBSD.  The amazing thing about it is, I was looking for a podcast catcher just a few days earlier and I was totally lost.  My keywords were just all over the place and I ended up with results that were totally left field.  I think the keyword would be “catcher” or “receiver”.  I’ve used Amarok and Banshee, but I could never figure out how to sync with my Blackberry.

Well a friend of mine tweeted someone on Twitter about Banshee so I started following the other person.  And luckily for me about a day later that guy tweeted about gPodder.  I jumped on it and I’ve been happy ever since.  Thank you Web 2.0 – you really work!