Information About

Gobby




name = Gobby
  Caption Gobby 040 (development version)
  Developer 0x539 dev group
  Latest Release Date December 2005
  Operating System Unix , Windows
  Genre Text Editor
  License GPL
  Website gobby0x539de


Gobby is a Free Software Collaborative Real-time Editor available on Windows and Unix-like platforms. It is confirmed to run on the Mac OS X platform, albeit not natively but using Apple's X11 instead. It was initially released in June 2005 by the 0x539 dev group.

Currently on version 0.3.0 it features a client-server architecture which supports multiple documents in one session, document synchronisation on request, password protection and an IRC-like chat for communication. Users could choose a colour to highlight the text they have written in a document. Gobby is fully Unicode -aware, provides syntax highlighting for most programming languages and has basic Zeroconf support.

A dedicated server called Sobby is also provided, together with a script which could format saved sessions for the web (e.g. to provide logs of meetings with a collaboratively prepared transscript).

Version 0.4.0, to be released in mid of April 2006, will feature Fully Encrypted connections and further usability enhancements.


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