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 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 - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > 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 - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss