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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. Why is this newsworthy? by woobieman29 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I mean really....

    Not only is this a really basic hack, but people have been using many different methods of sharing computing power almost as long as there have been computers. They could have made this a lot less expensive by just getting some X-terminals from Tektronix or one of the other companies off of Ebay. This is not even difficult on Windows if you buy Terminal Server.

    Slow news day I guess.

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  2. Re:Where to buy an inexpensive X terminal by XO · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm also seeing several Ebay auctions for Xterminals, currently going for $1 each. Nice.

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