look, someone has reinvented the minicomputer architecture!

[Brian Kelsay]

Try LTSP and their are many liveCDs, howtos and clients to make it work
fairly painlessly.

On 12/13/06, Jon Pruente <> wrote:
>
> I think the main "leap of technology" here is the use of multiple
> video cards and keyboards with a single computer.  That is a large
> step above simple serial terminals or remote sessions.  While the idea
> certainly isn't new, the methodology and the features are much more
> advanced.  For most office work a 500MHz machine is fine.  Once the
> general overhead of the OS is accounted for each user only takes up a
> fraction of the CPU power for their application and the I/O involved.
> By using independent video cards they can take more load off the CPU
> by not needing to compress and send display info for a remote session,
> which would also clog the network with multiple users having
> simultaneous access.
>
> I like their idea, but I think it's something that could be added in
> to Linux fairly easily with PCI video cards and USB devices.  Once you
> work out a frame work of assigning particular groups of I/O to each
> other, start an X session for that group and off they go...
>
> Jon.
>
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