Saturday, November 29, 2008

Open Source Software KVM (KM Actually)

I just bought a Black Friday Dell special.  I bought the Inspiron 530s with an Intel Pentium Conroe Dual Core Processor E2200(2.2GHz, 800FSB) with 1MB cache, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz, 320GB Serial ATA 2 Hard Drive (7200RPM), FREE Shipping & Handling all for $299!


I was shopping around for an upgrade to my current 2 port KVM (which connects my MacMini and eMachine T5212 but was kind of stumped since the new Dell is a USB keyboard/mouse rig and I currently am old school with the keyboard/mouse KVM.  My problems vanished when I discovered this gem called Synergy.


Synergy is an open source software KM solution which allows you to share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without any special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all.  I can't wait for my new Dell to arrive to set this thiing up.  I also plan to drop it onto my MythTV set-up which is connected to my 42" LCD.

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