On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 05:26:28 Grant wrote: > I'd like to have multiple users working from separate monitors, > keyboards, and mice, but all connected to a single Gentoo computer. > The main purpose is to minimize sys admin duties but hardware and > power requirements would also be minimized. > > Apparently this is called "multiseat" and native support in Xorg might > not be ready for primetime: > > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/Multiseat > http://vignatti.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/multiseat-roadmap > > There is a configuration tool for Xorg multiseat called MDM: > > http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Mdm > > but from what I've read it isn't ideal. Besides Xorg multiseat I've > read about LTSP and a few others: > > http://www.ltsp.org > http://www.thinstation.org > http://automseat.sourceforge.net > http://www.openthinclient.org > > There are also a lot of proprietary options. Is LTSP the way to go?
It may be, but as with all thin client models you would need a terminal computer for each user. If you only have one machine and monitors, keyboards and mice for each user then you'll need multiple video cards (and a strong power supply) for your only PC. In this case something like http://automseat.sourceforge.net may be more appropriate. However, I have not used anything like this set up to offer an opinion on performance. At work we use thin clients running Debian to serve MSWindows server desktop and apps to users. This setup uses the Citrix ica protocol, but I'm thinking that FreeNX coupled with VNC or relevant KDE or Gnome remote desktop implementation would probably work nicely and offer LAN and remote connection security at the same time. -- Regards, Mick
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