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FourHead: One PC, Four Users

Posted by timothy on from the four-times-the-fun dept.

LoganGD writes "A reseach group from UFPR university in Brazil, C3SL has managed to make one Linux box run four terminals at the same time. That means four mice, keyboards, displays and users with just one CPU. The way they managed to do that can be found at the FourHead project webpage. The fact that one computer science laboratory can suport up to 60 users whit only 15 PCs is really attractive for low-resource groups and countries."

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  1. 1975 called by Chairboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hi there,

    1975 called. They want their computer headlines back.

    Best regards,

    Chairboy

    1. Re:1975 called by ed__ · · Score: 4, Funny

      1997 called; they want their joke back.

    2. Re:1975 called by Angry+Prick · · Score: 3, Funny

      The Jerk Store called, they're all out of you.

      (ob Seinfeld reference)

  2. My favorite line by Froze · · Score: 5, Funny

    Initially it is necessary to catch the code source of kernel 2.4.25. Makes it sound like an adventure.

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    -- The morphemes of your disquisition are ascertainable, but they have eschewed an ambit of transpicuous exposition.
  3. Been there, done that by Haydn+Fenton · · Score: 3, Funny

    Heh, there was once a time where I had three mice (only 1 cursor though) - I had a normal PS2 mouse plugged in, an old COM port (I think.. never been too sure what port it was) mouse and a wireless USB mouse all plugged in at the same time, and they could all control the cursor.

    Hehe, it was good for playing tricks on my parents when they were sitting at the desk with the PS2 mouse and I'm sitting a few feet behind them with the handy wireless USB mouse.
    *evillaugh*

  4. Been there, done that by Uninen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man, this is old news. We did this few years ago with five or more people on one machine. All we needed was a really small computer class, some free chairs, one PC, one keyboard, one mouse and one display.

    Fastest (or strongest) got the best seats and the one with specs got the keyboard.

    Talking about multi-tasking...

  5. Re:Mainframe? by ed__ · · Score: 4, Funny

    it doesn't involve a mainframe?

  6. OOOOH..... linguistic pet peeve by SubliminalLove · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can you literally run something on a shoe-string budget? What, exactly, can you get in exchange for a shoestring? Or did you mean a budget literally equal to the value of a shoestring?

    Drives me nuts every time someone says 'literally' to modify a phrase that it is literally impossible to construe in any way but figuratively.

    ~Sub

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