From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265395AbTFMNr1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:47:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265396AbTFMNr1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:47:27 -0400 Received: from web12901.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.68]:47732 "HELO web12901.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265395AbTFMNrZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:47:25 -0400 Message-ID: <20030613140111.34979.qmail@web12901.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:01:11 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Terje=20F=E5berg?= Subject: Re: Real multi-user linux To: John Bradford , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200306130813.h5D8DeA8000540@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org John Bradford skrev: > This idea has come up before, have a look at: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?..... Thank you for providing these references. Especially the first thread discusses some thoughts I had, too. To summarize: People have thought about of one linux box directly supporting multiple (X-)consoles before. But this is not possible as of now, because X would have to be told to stop switching consoles and because the kernel cannot activate more than one console at one time. Additionately, multiple video cards may require mappings into the same memory area for certain functions. Some people have started to work on a solution, but these projects were orphaned. My motivation is simply a private one. I have a P3-866 with 1.5G RAM and a scsi raid here which serves its own console and an old P133 as X terminal. Although this machine is already some kind of outdated, it has plenty of power to serve two users with one KDE session each. I started to think about this, because the P133 died away due to a failing processor fan. Although replacing the whole machine with a similar one probably is cheaper than a good usb keyboard and mouse, it is also a question of comfort. No waiting for the terminal to boot up, no double administration, less power consumption, less space needed and so on. Although I have some C/C++ expirience, I have absolutely no clues about kernel and or X internals, so I guess I have to forget this for now. Regards, Terje ______________________________________________________ Få den nye Yahoo! Messenger på http://no.messenger.yahoo.com/ Nye ikoner og bakgrunner, webkamera med superkvalitet og dobbelt så morsom