This is an interesting tool. and with enough real hosrsepower you could share off a single computer with some workstation like performance to a few users. as each station has a real graphiocs card attached to it. (or one computer gaming for both for us gamers)
its a neat variation on thin client computing in any case, and has certain advantages of LTSP or somesuch (http://www.ltsp.org/) On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:01 AM, der.hans <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 08. Okt, 2009 schwätzte Lynn, William A III CIV USAF so: > > moin moin Bill, > >> Hi. Does anyone have any experience with this company? They do multiple >> monitors/keyboards/mice off one computer to extend a PC to several users. >> They say it's a "green" solution to modern computing, too. > > Brian was just looking at this as he was converting a library to > GNU/Linux. > > He said something coming out soon ( Karmic? Next version of X? New kernel? > ) will have many of the features provided by Userful. > >> Just seeing if anyone has an opinion on this. It could be really >> helpful to schools on a tight budget, I'm thinking. >> >> http://www2.userful.com/ > > Agreed. It would be great for schools, libraries, cafes and any other > place providing multiple desktops for the public. > > It's too late for a presentation at ABLEconf, but a multi-head demo would > be great. > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.ABLEconf.com/ > # Director of Engineering, FonWallet Transaction Solutions, Inc. > # ABLEconf: Saturday, 2009Okt24, Tempe. > # "Rock 'n' roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance > # all over them." -- Pete Townsend > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
