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For the past 6 months or so I have claimed to anyone who asks that QtEmu is about ready for it's 2.0 release - and I think I'm totally right about that. QtEmu is an app that is basically trying to be like vmWare workstation, but better. It's not quite there yet, but it's already pretty good. It is based on the work of uwolfer, the mind behind the massive improvements to KRDC in kde, and he has played a key role in helping me improve it this much.

In the past 6 months or so I have added a number of big features - things like automatic USB support, local file socket VNC support (this makes connections a lot more secure) and a bunch of other things. At the moment I'm pretty sure the only thing holding it back is the fact that VNC screen updates are rather slow - but that's the case in KRDC as well.

For a few years now, people have been predicting "the year of Linux on the desktop." For one reason or another, this hasn't quite happened yet. Recently, however, various projects have been comeint together to meet the challenges that have been hampering widespread acceptance of Linux. One of these challenges is in the area of network management, and a tool called NetworkManager is the solution. NetworkManager is a lot like the incredible Hulk: it's great - but only until you get it angry.

Lately I have been devoting a portion of my free time to hacking on a nifty program called QtEmu. It is a frontend for qemu-based CPU virtualizers. This sounds complicated, but, thankfully it's not too hard to use. This is the sort of thing that can compete with software like VMware, Paralells and VirtualBox, and in my opinion the interface is way better than VMware or VirtualBox...

QtEmu is a frontend for qemu-based CPU virtualizers. This sounds complicated, but, thankfully it's not too hard to use with QtEmu.