Craig, There's been alot of chatter about 4-headed pcs over the past week or so. Seems like an interesting idea.
I've been in offices, where the cubicles are arranged in groups of 4. This could be a good place for a 4-headed machine. I'm thinking a mini-tower case with a 733mhz via and 256mb of ram. Drop a couple of pci video cards in, along with usb keyboards and mice, and it should work fine. There's plenty of environments where this could work, especially when you look at offices, where the primary duties of the user are to pound transactions into a database. Of course, there's lots of places where it wouldn't work either, but that's the beauty of it. You can choose to deploy or not. Anyway, It seems like an interesting idea. But, not something that I'll have to time to play with for quite a while. Maybe someone wants to give it a try, and report back to us ? Thanks, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Craig Ringer wrote: > Hi folks > > The recent announcement of a big OEM 4-user linux-based PC > (http://h40058.www4.hp.com/products/desktops/441/techspec.html if you > haven't heard) made me wonder what a similar setup would be like when > combined with LTSP. > > Net boot a PC and run 2 - 4 users per PC. If you're building an LTSP > setup with new hardware then even bottom-of-the-range gear will be > overkill, so it's an ideal chance to make use of some of the spare > grunt. 256MB of RAM == 64MB of RAM per user, which is plenty, and the > only other likely limitation would be the ethernet. In my experience it > is rare that multiple workstations will be using significant bandwidth > at the same time, so I doubt that'd be a problem. > > The LinuxConsole / Ruby projects (as in multihead linux not the > programming language) have apparently been doing this sort of thing for > a while. So ... I'm curious. Has anybody got LTSP going with multiple > local X users? If not, can anybody think of any particular reason it > might not work? > > I was unable to find anything on the 'net or archives regarding LTSP and > Ruby or LinuxConsole, but it seems hard to imagine that nobody would've > thought of this before. So - am I on the right track here? > > I'm very curious about this. While my LTSP workstations are far too > gutless to cope with two users (one is enough of a challenge), any new > systems are likely to be a lot nicer. Probably Via Eden or C3 based > small PCs, which with an extra video card could support two users. Three > with a dual-head Radeon or Matrox card. > > As my environment has quite a high user density, you can imagine that > this would be interesting. Also, to me the two things - LTSP and > multiple users on a workstation - just compliment each other so nicely > it'd be almost wrong not to do it. > > (I accidentally sent a copy of this before re-subscribing. I'd appreciate > it if the list admin would kindly kill it from the queue next time they > check the held spam^H^H^H^Hmail in the list queue. Sorry.) > > -- > Craig Ringer > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. > Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - > digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, > unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
