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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. Hello and welcome to last week by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Windows Terminal Server has been doing this for years...

  2. MOD PARENT UP +1 ON THE MONEY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    DO IT FUCKRE

  3. Awesome: But Easier Way? by garagecartel · · Score: 1, Troll

    I was thinking, when I was using my KVM Switch, I noticed that you can reverse it's usage, instead of having 4 machines and 1 monitor/mouse. You can have 1 machine KVM'ed out to 4 displays, keyboard, and mice. Once done you could possible just use a terminal with vnc and use port forwarding to get x to work. Not sure it would work but just a thought... --[H]itman_Forhire

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  4. Re:I disagree by benjamindees · · Score: 0, Troll

    OK. Now imagine that the US Congress has outlawed those computers in order to protect manufacturers' profits from exactly that.

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  5. Re:Mainframe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    zOMG! YUO == TEH SUKKK

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  6. Re:Mainframe? by saden1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not your son you old fart.

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