Multiplicity Pro

Mac - Windows

I have an offer to upgrade to the Pro version since I'm a Stardock customer using their products. My question is if it is possible to control an iMac as well as PC's? I have an iMac and 2 windows 10 laptops, a linux server, and one desktop PC. It would be great if there were a way to connect Mac - Linux - Windows all together on the home network. I would settle for now just being able to control the mac as well as laptops with my destop PC.

 

Thank You,

 

Mel

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Reply #1 Top

Sorry, there isn't a Mac client for MP.

Reply #2 Top

Multiplicity Pro does a truly excellent job of controlling my laptop in KVMA mode.  I tried viewing and listening to a YouTube video and the performance is excellent, with no apparent latency or artifacts in either video or sound, even in full screen.  Multiplicity KVM has allowed me to pull the hardware KVMS plug on the laptop, which is preparatory to moving it to the family room to run the TV.  I'll control it using Multiplicity KVM from the man-cave, or an RF keyboard/mouse when near it.

I also have a Linux computer on my home network.  I'm considering moving my personal computing to it over time because of MS's apparent urge to merge the cell phone, tablet, and PC "experience" and I am a bit put off by buttons on the desktop of my full tower power workstation like "Airplane mode."  Then, there are the privacy issues; apparently no mater what you do with all of the privacy options, even the less obvious ones, MS sends data for mining purposes to sell to advertisers, according to Kim Kommando's blogs.  And, about the software - I originally moved over to Windows 2000 from OS/2 to synch my Palm Pilot in 2001 (killer app for me at the time) and have been satisfied, if not happy, since.  I've used my Linux machines for number crunchers and other geeky things but not for normal daily things like keeping records, photography, writing, etc.  But Adobe, MS Office, and others are all pushing to give you Software-as-a-Service, i.e. rent you the software, and if you loose WWW connectivity your software wont' run, although Adobe gives you a grace period and there may be other workarounds - for now.  And, they have a hook in your credit card account for monthly withdrawals that you don't control anymore.  I'm just not going for any of that.

I would very much like to see Multiplicity KVM as a client for my Linux machine.  Eventually, I may want to use the Linux machine as the master.

Which brings me to ObjectDock - if you had that for Gnome and KDE, you might be amazed at how many you could sell.

Porting most simple programs and utilities to Linux is fairly straightforward for those familiar with both Win32 programming and the Linux X-Windows API.  Most of your utilities of interest, such as Icon Developer, would be straightforward to provide for Linux.

Since OS/X runs on the BSD kernel, the hardware layer is similar to that of Linux, but I'm not sure that the X-Windows API is available, so you will likely need the OS/X developer's kit and someone who knows how to use it to port to OS/x.