Re: Multiple keyboard/monitor vs linux-2.6?

["Svetoslav Slavtchev" <svetljo@gmx.de>]

> Quote from William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>:
> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:09:05AM +0100, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
> > > if you just want muliple X users bruby/ ruby should work as stable as
> > > 2.4 /2.6 (works at least for 20-25 people i helped, reading the howto
> > > and getting it up),
> > > 
> > > but if you want multiple virtual terminals, you'll have to experiment
> :-)
> > > and read a lot the linuxconsole ml, as it's not yet documented 
> > 
> > Multiple X users (via xdm login) is what I'm looking for.  X-terminal is
> > the canonical answer.  In the light of recent development in PXE support
> > which effectively eliminated third-party packages like Etherboot,
> > Netboot, Rom-a-matic, and LTSP,  I was wondering if it's possible to go
> > the next logical step and eliminate motherboard/case as well.
> > 
> > This would be ideal for home market, where you want multiple users (ie.
> > kids) but with only one PC.  Sell it as "Linux Mainframe"... :-)
> 
> Search the archives - this comes up every few months on LKML.
> 
> John.
> 

with the small difference that now it's doable,
and previously mostly impossible

/* ya i know that Miguel solution exist quite a long time
 * already, but it's a bit hard to use it on systems with more
 * then 2 users and configuring the input devices is not easy,
 * optimal, and tere is no way to get multi-user virtual consoles
 * 
 * ruby doesn't have this issues
 */

best,

svetljo

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