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I’ve been wanting to do this, I can’t work comfortably with the laptop’s keypad, especially without numpad. Now this is one innovative open source program that needs some serious credit. Synergy, lets you share a single set of keyboard and mouse across multiple operating systems, namely, Windows, Linux and Mac.

Visit the download page here. On my desk, there are one IBM Thinkpad(Windows XP) and a PC(Debian GNU Linux). I’m going to share one set of logitech keyboard and mouse across these two machines.

Decide which machine to be the server. In my case, I’m going to choose Debian machine as the synergy server, no doubt. The IBM Thinkpad is going to be the client machine. Before you start, you should make sure that, all machines involved must have TCP/IP connections. In other word, local area network is needed.

Howtoforge.com has a detailed how-to for installation of newly released Debian Etch(4.0). I have to list down some of programs the author uses to perform daily desktop tasks.

Graphics:

• The GIMP - free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop
• F-Spot - full-featured personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop
• Google Picasa - application for organizing and editing digital photos

4.0, debian, etch, how to, installation, perfect

I’ve been working on my laptop ever since the wireless network is installed. I love to bring my laptop here and there in the house, especially to living room and dining table, where I can join my parents for a little chit-chatting.

This laptop runs a genuine Windows XP Professional. I had to search for some favorite programs which I’ve been using on my Debian desktop. GIMP, an image manipulation program which I’ve been using for years, is available for Windows. Windows package is available here. Please be informed that you will need GTK+ 2 Runtime Environment in order to run GIMP, GTK+2 installer is also available in the same page.

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Latest version of Ubuntu has been released on 16th April 2007. Download here. Just for your information, they are having some world parties around the world, to celebrate this release. Hmm.

Please be noticed that, Ubuntu is a Debian derivative. Not much of you out there have learned about this. If you need something stronger and more stable, please get Debian. Newbies, ubuntu is your choice.

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