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Multiple Users and Multiple Inputs on One Machine?
BozoForPresident asks: "Not long after seeing a dual monitor setup for the first time I thought how useful it'd be to plug in another keyboard and mouse for a second user. That $4000 dual headed laptop (reported on Slashdot on Sunday March 16) becomes a more viable purchase when you add a couple of USB keyboards and mice for an additional user. Microsoft will never do it but how difficult would it be to make Linux handle 2 (or more) streams of input and direct them to their respective windows?"
And no one likes people who don't read the comment.
He wasn't saying it was possible, but that it was hardly a long way off for Windows NT.
You haven't been marked at troll yet, so I'll tell you why this is a great ask slashdot post. It boils down to the fact that not everyone knows as much as you, or about what Linux can do for them. It would seem to me that if you could answer this poor guy's question, instead of trying to make yourself sound powerful and mighty, the world just might be a little better place to live. If you don't think what I'm saying is true, then check out the little culture of open Source Developers. And if you don't believe in the Open Source philosophy, then why are you wasting your time with Linux anyway? Why don't you just use some other UNIX? Please stop the high and mighty crap. No body cares that you have more geek'sperince, and the people who might care, can't because your to busy trying to tell them how stupid they are. There was a point in time that you didn't know about serial terminals. There was a point in time where you got introduced to the concept.
Have a nice day.
I'll have something intelligent to add one of these days...