Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?
Carey Evans wrote:
> Jameson Burt <jameson@mnsinc.com> writes:
>
> > I seek to use one computer with two full X-windows users.
> > This would be a cheap in time/money approach for my wife and I simultaneously
> > using Linux.
>
> It might be worthwhile finding a cheap 386 or 486 with a good graphics
> card. Install a minimum of programs on it, just the X server. If you
> run xfs on your main computer, you won't even need the fonts. You
> could do this with even a 200 MB hard disk, I think.
>
> You *will* need 2 network cards for this, but setting up two computers
> on a network under Linux is easier than some single-computer stuff. X
> is probably too slow over serial.
>
> (Just another option.)
>
> It is easy to plug in two mice, dodgy to plug in two monitors, but
> pretty much impossible to plug in two keyboards at the moment, IMO.
A better option would be to look at the dxt package on sunsite- it is a nfsroot
linux boot floppy that you can set up to run an X server on- I've hacked it up a
bit, so it will use an X font server & such- I may release it at some point in
time. It is not the best solution, but it is out there.
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