Per Jessen wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
That being said, there are hints that the way systemd is heading will support "multiple seats". Whether that means multiple video cards, keyboards and mice plugged into a single box I don't know. I do know that for a long time UNIX has been doing on one box, possibly chrooted, what it takes many virtual instances of MS-Windows to do: dns, dhcp, smtp and more -- and all without needing virtualization.
So it might be that the 'multi-seat' is really a GUI version of what we were doing with PDP-11s back in the 70s and 80s, that is having many terminal plugged in to one box and many people logged in simultaneously and making use of the multi-processing and process separation capabilities of UNIX.
c't ran an article on such a Linux multi-seat setup some years back, possibly more than 6-7 years ago. AFAIR, without virtualization.
Way back in 2006: c't 10/2006, page 228 There was also a more recent one: c't 5/2013, page 158. Only 2.5 pages for setting up a 2-seat system, seems straight forward (although with Ubuntu). -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org