Re: Two computers in one: two users each with their own accounts, monitor, and keyboard?

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:35:25AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Albretch Mueller put forth on 1/12/2010 4:00 AM:
> 
> >  The only extra cost here would be the special video cards for each
> > seat but even they are commercial nowadays and making multi-seat work
> > would be our job right?
> 
> You're still missing the overall picture here.  In your living room or basement,
> or in a library or lab with a 30 foot long desk, this concept may work, somewhat.
> 
I agree that a cheapo laptop, netbook, or desktop is probably the
easiest way to go for the original poster.  

If you really want to go multi-head, I think the real way to go right
now is LTSP.  Get any old computer, connect it via Cat5 to the LTSP
server (which can even be just a P4 with 512MB), and boot it off of a
gPXE CD.  You'll have local USB access and local CD access (but not
audio CD).  You can do this with real junk!  I have a couple of P3's and
a P2 acting as LTSP thin clients and they work great.

-Rob