“Wikis and groupware are great for distributed collaboration
between teams, but they lack the ability to provide real-time
feedback to teams working on a shared document. Collaborative
editors, on the other hand, give multiple users a convenient way to
work together on one or more documents. Mac users have had
SubEthaEdit for some time, but Gobby is the first collaborative
editor for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X users. Let’s take a look at
how you can start editing documents with your friends and
co-workers using Gobby.“I’m using Gobby 0.3, which is available in packages for Ubuntu
6.06 Long Term Support (LTS), Debian testing/unstable, Gentoo, and
Fedora Core 5 (and probably other distros). If Gobby isn’t
available as a package for your favorite distribution, or it’s only
available as an older release, visit the download page and grab the
source for Gobby and its dependencies…”