For apple there is Dashboard and for PC there is Konfabulator so whats the alternative app for linux ? I hear you ask. Well , there is screenlets . Some people will argue gDesklet is Old-time stable appl but I find it really OLD .

Visit http://screenlets.org to get the Latest file and download it , installing is not that easy as there is no BINARY installer yet (like rpm or .deb) and Still have difficulty to get manager running. still the individual screenlets (like clock,calender,notes) are easily runnable. Still in development, the author has done incredible job for creating small foot print and good on resource usage (less cpu/ram) application . core language I found used is "Python" plus its Opensource

Following is screenshot of all widgets running (~800kb):-



Video of how I fireup the screenlets (~ 1.3mb) :-

Inside Google Desktop: Google Desktop for Linux 1.1 Beta


I upgraded my previous installation of Fedora 7 easily by using command rpm -Uvh google-desktop-linux-current.rpm .

Now, Windows has its own protocol called RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) specially created for admins who want to connect to Windows machines located remotely.

But if you are Linux desktop user, you dont have any application from Microsoft (obviously!) so there is native app to accomplish this.

Try the following command.

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sudo yum install tsclient
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This will install Linux app call Terminal server client , this supports RDP RDP5 as well as VNC. its easy to use. Watch the video demo to see how it goes.

So you have access to Linux box without GUI or Linux server located remotely and you only have username access with SSH service running on Linux box, the fastest and most secure way to transfer is using sftp (or secure ftp tunneled on ssh).

Check out the video how I use winscp application on Windows XP to transfer files back and forth between the two operating systems.

NOTE:- the video quality is getting worse at my video hoster, since its free I can't complain. I might soon try to get my own video hosting service for better quality,But I am not sure how to fund it. using different hoster.