How did those old mini computers provide dumb terminals without their own
processor?  I think it would be really cool to have one computer,
motherboard, ps, cpu, memory, etc and three stations. My guess is today's
hardware is powerful enough to support it.

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From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Kevin
Brown
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 4:50 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Linux and multi-user options

>>How does one truly utilize Linux in a multi-user configuration?

>>I know of one hardware/software solution in the Windows environment using
a
>>PCI card incorporating video/mouse/keyboard support. The following website
>>presents this solution, however they don't provide Linux support.
>>
>>http://www.applica.com/

>>What hardware/software solutions are there, if any, for Linux?

> Only in windows is this a big production number ...
> That is because windows is NOT truly a multiuser system
> 
> In linux it is ALREADY there. I do it all the time.
> And as usual there are several ways.
> 
> 1) the command line way:
> 
> Just hook up all your linux systems in a LAN
> and use ssh to go to the other box.
> when there just run whatever application you want.
> ssh can be set up to login without an explicit password
> 
> for your command-line challenged folks. 
> create desktop shortcuts to run their applications
> on the "other" box.
> 
> for instance, create a shortcut the runs the following command:
> ssh username@otherbox '/usr/bin/X11R6/xclock' at it will run xclock on the

> other box.
> 
> 2) have xclients login to the remote box, as opposed to logging in to
their 
> own box.

This is basically what LTSP is about.  One beefy server and some thin client

systems.

http://www.ltsp.org/

Also it is possible to distribute some of the workload of LTSP using
openMosix 
from what I understand...
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