Re: What's left over. (Fbdev rewrite)

Re: What's left over. (Fbdev rewrite)

[Helge Hafting]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > Fbdev Rewrite
> 
> This one is just huge, and I have little personal judgement on it.

This lets me use a multihead console, which lets me
run two X workstations in one pc. Two (or more)
keyboards, mice and screens.  But only one
expensive mainboard, only one space-consuming case.

Great for home use, possibly at work too.

Those who care about clean code can enjoy
the separation of framebuffer and console too.

Helge Hafting

Re: What's left over. (Fbdev rewrite)

[svetljo]

Hi it's really great  feature,
i'm useing the 2.4 backport 
(sadly without the framebuffer drivers)
it works without problems.

if it's included in 2.6 
one could use one  PC for 2,3 or more users at the same time
in case the framebuffer drivers work
( the case with 2.5 , 2.6) 
one could use 2 double headed cards on 1 PC for 4 users

i think this very important feature let say for univercities, libraries, internet cafes ........
it cost so much less per user 


 
 

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Svetoslav Dimitrov Slavtschev

svetljo@lycos.com
svetoslav@web.de



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