Linux Multiuser Servers

An Anonymous Coward writes: "John Looney recently posted to the lkml, asking about the possibility of one computer serving multiple users. That is to say, multiple keyboards, mice, monitors, etc, hooked up to a single server. The advantages of such a setup in a lab type environment are obvious. The following discussion ranges through several technical issues with such a configuration, including a kernel limitation of one virtual terminal active at a time, and the typical lack of quality in long video cables. However, none of the issues raised are unbeatable. James Simmons, for example, has been working on cleaning up the virtual terminal code, with many related fixes already merged into Dave Jones' tree."

Comments

Xterms??

[jbreker]

Ive never used any but ive heard conversation about them for use in our school (its a high school and you would be surprised at how the equipment gets busted)

one other option i could see is to have cheap client machines and rewrite the bootup scripts to ssh connect to the server instead of loading /bin/login.