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LogMeIn offers a wide array of products to remotely access and administer systems -- as long as the system is running Windows, Mac OS, or certain smartphone platforms. According to TechWorld (Australia), this could change later this year.

The reasons that LogMeIn's Asia Pacific General Manager, Seth Shaw, gives for reaching out towards the Linux platform are intriguing -- and heartening.

Nothing is worse than arriving at a remote destination, turning on your computer, and finding out that you left something critical back at home. Thatﾒs where remote control software comes in, and one of the simplest and best remote control applications you can use is free and open source TightVNC. You can download and install it in less than a minute. Then you just designate a host computer as server, and you can get password-protected access from wherever you are. TightVNC is small enough in footprint that it will fit unobtrusively on a USB thumb drive. Find out more in the WebWorkerDaily story.