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Have you seen MaxiVista yet? I guess I’ve been under a rock and missed it, but boy it sure is slick. A guy at the office turned me onto it the other day and I’m pretty impressed:

MaxiVista turns any spare PC into a second monitor for your main computer. No extra hardware required. You can seamlessly extend program windows across multiple screens like it would be a single big monitor.

(trial version)

Well, not any spare PC — it has to be one running windows. Kind of like Synergy (which ROCKS), but adding the V for video into the software KVM equation.

But here’s the question: Has anyone seen anything like this that would work in a mixed Windows/Linux world? I’m very intrigued, but for my own stuff, I’m pretty mixed between linux and Windows.

5 Responses to “Seen Anything like MaxiVista?”

1. Dieter on April 6th, 2007 7:11 am
   

   MaxiVista is really cool. I also use it a lot. A colleague managed to run the viewer program under wine in a linux box. So it should work.

2. Chris on April 6th, 2007 10:57 am
   

   Thanks for the suggestion Dieter. Worst case, I may try that… the linux laptop I’d like to use is a Pentium 2. So far, I’ve been successful in avoiding WINE on it

3. muhqu on April 11th, 2007 12:40 am
   

   if you’re looking for something similar which works with Mac / Linux using VNC, have a look at http://www.zoneos.com/zonescreen.htm

4. dei on September 11th, 2007 1:22 pm
   

   i think the zoneos link is down. Didn’t found it on google either but, there is another existing program for linux: http://dmx.sourceforge.net/

5. Chris on September 11th, 2007 9:48 pm
   

   Hmm, http://www.zoneos.com is up, but I didn’t see anything that looked similar.

   DMX looks interesting (in a very geeky sort of way), but I’d have to have X running on the Windows machines, yes?

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