[PLUG] Multi-User Environments

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Jul 30 23:07:07 UTC 2007


On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Robert Kopp wrote:

> ... but I'm considering the full spectrum of options for a few people to
> tap the power of one high-end computer simultaneously. There is a product
> called BeTwin for Windows that allows two to four people to use the same
> computer simultaneously by connecting an extra set of peripherals for each
> added user. Has anything similar been attempted for Linux?

   How about several dozen or hundreds of users on the same server or two?

   Look at LTSP, the Linux Terminal Server Project. The education industry
version, K12LTSP, is installed at a number of Oregon schools/districts.

Rich

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