CosmoPOD - Free Remote KDE Desktop

NoMachine is an extremely cool piece of technology. It's like VNC on steroids, but it's much much more. The software allows you to connect to a remote machine (which is running an NX server), login with your normal user account, and be presented with a brand new remote desktop. Top this with very good speed/latency, remote audio playback, remote printing/file sharing, and you've got a winner. How do you get in on this geeky goodness? If you want to run a NoMachine server on your PC at home, you've got two options: Buy a license for the NoMachine Linux server, or try the GPLed FreeNX server.Now, say you don't have a Linux machine of your own,...
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Mac Apps on Linux?

The WINE project is an "Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and UNIX". In layman's terms, it means it lets you run Windows programs on Linux. In my personal opinion, I would say this project is a wild success, especially with the advancements made to it in the last year.With the release of Apple's OS X for Intel x86-based processors, OS X applications are being released in a different "format" to run on these new processors. After reading about this many times, a thought occurred to me: x86 executables (programs) instead of PowerPC (the old processor type) executables means that if one wanted to hypothetically try to run...
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Dapper Flight 4 is out...

So Ubuntu Dapper Drake Flight 4 (the 4th Alpha release) is out.Check out that link for a bunch of screenshots of new features.It looks like the update notifications finally look how they should (with every new Flight release they were looking sketchier and sketchier). Also, Espresso (graphical LiveCD setup) and the example content look like awesome steps in the right direction.Lastly, it's good to see GNOME Power Manager made it in (and is integrated this time around). It's been in development for a while, and I'm hoping it'll help with stuff like suspend/hibernate.Good job Ubuntu team.(And if you're wondering why I left out mentioning XGL, I'm saving those for another day.)...
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Rhythmbox vs. Banshee

Update Sept 18/07: I realize a lot of people are still reading this article, and I'd live to give a big fat WARNING to everyone that this comparison is totally out-of-date now. Both Banshee and Rhythmbox have seen several releases since I wrote this article, and they've both improved tremendously. At the moment, my favourite player is Rhythmbox (0.11.2 on Ubuntu 7.10), as it's got a bunch new killer features that I can't live without (play queue, Magnatune+Jamendo integration, Last.FM). It's still worth checking out both apps though.When it comes to music playback and management software on Linux, there's a million pieces of software to look...
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Ekiga is Cool

Ekiga Softphone is mighty cool. On the surface it looks like just another update to GnomeMeeting, but it doesn't take long to realize it's oh so much more.Here are some feature highlights (ripped from the site):Audio AND Video (SIP and H.323)STUN support (SIP and H.323)Echo CancellationThat's right, she's now a fully loaded SIP audio and video client. It's also got nifty STUN support (and NAT traversal stuff) so it can "just work" while you're behind a router and/or firewall, just like the other guys. (Although, don't get me wrong - Skype's crappy QT interface doesn't stand a chance against Ekiga's) :)I've tested it in Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)...
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