Someone wrote to the list a while back asking about the
possibility of setting up a Linux lab in a school (with
LTSP, if possible) with the major request being that two
monitors, keyboards, mice could be attached to a single box
allowing essentially two consoles. I believe the limitation
was power outlets or noise from too many boxes, or
something... I don't think anyone had anything terribly
constructive to say, which is understandable as this is an
odd request and obviously not in the realm of "normal" LTSP
use.
Well, I happened to see a headline in the 'Developers'
column on Slashdot yesterday called "Linux Multiuser
Servers". I thought, "What?! That's not news... What're
those Slashdot people smoking?" I followed the link out of
pure curiosity and I found exactly the discussion this
person was looking for. The link in the article takes you
to the recent discussion on the lkml about kernel
limitations and XFree limitations and what can be done about
it. It's an interesting discussion involving some of the
kernel luminaries (Cox and HPA).
What's more interesting for the short-term, however, is the
single comment following the Slashdot article (subject
"Already been done"). It mentions a Miguel Freitas of
Brazil who got such a thing working on his PC and includes
the text of the solution and a link to the HTML. According
to the text, it was just updated April 4, 2002!
The upshot of all of this:
1) changes may be making their way into the 2.5.x kernels
to "correctly" support this kind of thing
2) you can do it already with a dose of hacking
3) if you can do on a Linux PC, you can do on an LTSP
client!
Jason
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