Peregrine

First, I have to thank Jayce^ for his recent post about Synergy. I’ve been wanting to set it up for a long time now, but could never remember what it was called.

As you might know from reading my recent post, this past week, my wife Charlotte and I have cleared out our storage unit. One of the items that I have long been wanting to get out of there and get set up is my desk. It’s a not too large, but well shaped “half-C” desk, with a very deep center area (perfect for my 20 inch Princeton Graphic systems Ultra 20 monitor, which weighs in at something like 80 pounds).

My main system these days has been my notebook computer. I almost never leave home without it. But when I am home, I spend a lot of time working with both the notebook and the other systems I have. So, I set up synergy this afternoon. I’m using the keyboard and mouse for my Dual Opteron workstation and writing this blog entry on the notebook. This is so cool.

Synergy is very easy to get setup and running. If you’re thinking of using Synergy, I would encourage you to do so.

The Fedora Extras repository has a synergy package (simply run “yum install synergy” on FC4 & FC5 systems), so installation was a snap. I created an /etc/synergy.conf file (have to do it from scratch) on the server and was up and running in under 5 minutes, that is, after fixing a semi-colon that should have been a colon.

The next thing I’m going to do with Synergy is try to get it running on my sgi Indigo 2 & Sun SPARCstation 10 workstations. If I feel like taking on a real challenge, I’ll see if I can get it working on my Apple Mac Quadra950 which is running A/UX (Apple UNIX).