Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

6 of 496 comments (clear)

  1. Translation by sploo22 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Google doesn't do a particularly good translation of Portuguese computer jargon - it refers to Nvidia "plates", a "plate mother", PS/2 "doors", "slide bars" (I assume these are expansion slots) and the list goes on and on.

    --
    Karma: Segmentation fault (tried to dereference a null post)
  2. What about sound? by samrolken · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It would seem relatively easy (USB sound devices, or cheap PCI sound cards) to add sound to each workstation.

    --
    samrolken
  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  4. Re:Pardon my ignorance by AvantLegion · · Score: 0, Redundant
    If not RTFA, at least RTF blurb:

    That means FOUR mice, keyboards, DISPLAYS and users with just one CPU.

  5. Re:Pardon my ignorance by tannhaus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Read the article and look at the pictures. They each get their own monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

  6. Re:Pardon my ignorance by foidulus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Your ignorance could have easily been cured if you read the article and saw the pictures that show 4 separate monitors for each user.
    I think you mean, "pictures that show 4 seperate monitors, one for each user", you way would have 16 monitors :P