Re: multicore gizmos
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:06:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> I've always wondered about the possibilities of setting up more than one
> desktop on a single system. And by more than one desktop, I mean full KVM,
> audio, and USB (preferably with the ability to tell which desktop is doing
> the plugging). Ideally, the kind of thing that could host more than one
> gamer.
You mean something like having one central machine that runs all the
software along with, say, 50 or 60 desktops which are exported as remote
X sessions to a bunch of remote graphical terminals?
Been there, done that. Look up XDMCP. It's not actually that hard to
do under the X architecture, but it really wows people nonetheless. Not
quite up to your gaming ideal, though - even if you had a machine with
the horsepower to run 50 copies of $FAVORITE_GAME simultaneously, the
delays introduced by shipping the video over the network would be a
killer.
--
Windows Vista must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things
like "display quality too high"
- Peter Gutmann, "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection"
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
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