Back in 2009, it was inspired by other tools like BigVisibleCruise. I made an AIR application, so you can use it on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Basically, it fetches the same xml feed used by the cctray tool. So you will be able to monitor the CruiseControl family and the Hudson family. See each tool documentation. If your tool does not provide natively cctray feed, you may try third party plugins.
The back story is that it was my first AIR application and also I wanted to try the mate framework. So it may need some refactoring and more feature! I don't plan to maintain this project or maybe just for myself someday ;)
You need to install the Adobe AIR Runtime. On Linux, the lastest version is 2.6
Now, you can launch the air file to install. You may need administrator rights.
Once installed, you must specify the URL of the xml (same as cctray). For instance, http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/view/JBoss%20Portal/cc.xml
You can download and try a version here
Although it runs on Linux, building may not work. Well I don't know :) Anyway, You will need
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ant 1.7+
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Get a code-signing certificate. I don't have one so I use a self-signed certificate
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Define some properties in a file
$HOME/.ant-global.propertiesflex_sdk_4.5=${user.home}/work/tools/sdk/flex_sdk_4.5 air.keystore=${user.home}/work/air-cert.p12 air.keystore.password=mysecret
Now you can launch ant air to build the application.