Try LTSP and their are many liveCDs, howtos and clients to make it work fairly painlessly.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jon Pruente</b> <> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I think the main "leap of technology" here is the use of multiple<br>video cards and keyboards with a single computer. That is a large<br>step above simple serial terminals or remote sessions. While the idea<br>
certainly isn't new, the methodology and the features are much more<br>advanced. For most office work a 500MHz machine is fine. Once the<br>general overhead of the OS is accounted for each user only takes up a<br>fraction of the CPU power for their application and the I/O involved.
<br>By using independent video cards they can take more load off the CPU<br>by not needing to compress and send display info for a remote session,<br>which would also clog the network with multiple users having<br>simultaneous access.
<br><br>I like their idea, but I think it's something that could be added in<br>to Linux fairly easily with PCI video cards and USB devices. Once you<br>work out a frame work of assigning particular groups of I/O to each
<br>other, start an X session for that group and off they go...<br><br>Jon.<br></blockquote></div><br>