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Use Virtual Windows XP in Linux

So you want to use legacy windows-only applications and have no other options and instead of keeping separate machine or installing Complete OS on another partition just for such moments is waste of resources. Then you can use VMWARE products to do this, the preferred application is VMware Workstation, but I have seen you can install it via freeware VMware server too.

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Howto get Apple dashboard widgets or Konfabulator widgets in Linux

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) :-


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