Using Firefly, your Ubuntu machine can host an iTunes media server which, with the help of Avahi installed as per this post, will show up in the iTunes “SHARED” list and will be accessible via Front Row. The following guide will get you started. Install Firefly (mt-daapd) using the apt-get package management software. Open a

After installing Avahi following this post and are running Ubuntu, it is easy to configure Ubuntu to use Vinagre (a VNC client) to remotely share the desktop with machines running OS X on your local area network (LAN) via the Share Screen… button in Finder. The following guide will gets you started. (Note: In order

If you followed this guide, your Ubuntu machine can now serve files to Macs on your local area network (LAN) using AFP. It would be nice if this Ubuntu/Netatalk Apple file server was discovered automatically by your Macs. This can be accomplished by installing Avahi, an implementation of Zeroconf similar to Apple’s Bonjour that allows

Apple computers communicate with one another using the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP). Using the freely-available implementation of this protocol called Netatalk, Ubuntu can interface with Mac OS X and you can set up a AppleShare file server on a Ubuntu machine that is accessible to Macs on your local area network (LAN). To install Netatalk

After a fresh install of Ubuntu and media software and codecs, a little more work is required to start ripping and burning DVDs. Below is a guide to get you started using Brasero (the CD/DVD burning application included with Ubuntu) and an application called K9Copy, which is similar to the once popular program DVD Shrink