I have a few Mac OS X systems, in particular a MacBookPro that my job gave me. 2.33 GHZ w/ 2GB of memory Core2Duo. It's a fine and dandy machine and I'm real happy with the performance of VirtualBox on this system. Since my job is really about facilitating running Java on open source OS's like Ubuntu what I need is for a virtualized OS to feel very responsive. But I also need to compile OpenJDK source on that OS.

Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in Raw DV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings.

The JPackage project has created RPM compatible packaging of dozens (?hundreds?) of Java applications.

A rundown of installing and configuring NFS services on Ubuntu.

This is an old article describing how to use a Mac to connect to NFS running from a Linux system. I tried what it said, and it worked!

NTP is a TCP/IP protocol for synchronizing time over a network. Basically a client requests the current time from a server, and uses it to set its own clock.

A brief guide to installing Xen on a Mac Mini

Ubuntu forums section for running their OS on Apple hardware.

A long list of guidance on proper configuration of Ubuntu 7.10