Re: Welcome to Feisty Fawn

actually, let me get to the point :)

If the terminal client is a linux box, no matter how beefy, and can
support multiple video cards on a PCI bus then you can add extra heads
to each box instead of buying a whole new setup to add another
terminal client station. Any of your clients that appreciate your
solution but need more workstations in a cost effective way may find
this useful. Each head is capable of isolated input devices and an
isolated connection to the terminal server. This includes anything
within a specific USB chain if you are a spiffy script kiddie.
Userful Multiplier is a comnmercial solution to this, I used straight
X as well as a Xephyr solution for testing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat

Just *munch munch munch* food for thought if it hasn't come up yet.
Happy V-Day aklug.

On 2/14/07, Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com> wrote:
> Yeh :) I fully understand how it works. Its neat that you can offer
> something of that scale off a single system. What are the terminal
> clients made of?
>
> On 2/14/07, Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net> wrote:
> > I should be able to do 30 or more thin clients on a 64 bit dual core
> > processor with about two gigs of RAM. I'm shooting for 25 or 30. That
> > way they will have spare power for applications that work the cpu.
> >
> > Thin clients can be placed all over the building. Plug them into the
> > appropriate switch/terminal server and away you go. :-)
> >
> >
> > Shane Spencer wrote:
> > > Ok :) 2/4/8 independant heads on one fast computer is a pretty good
> > > and very fast interface, just not an option one you are looking for.
> > >
> > > On 2/14/07, Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> This is not an option. Thin clients and terminal servers aren't that
> > >> expensive. They also give you more flexibility. Remember, most
> > >> companies, schools are using workstations. That's a lot more expensive
> > >> then a thin client setup.
> > >>
> > >> Shane Spencer wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Damien, have you ever checked out Multi Terminal setups vs Remote
> > >>> Terminals? May help lower budget clients get 4 machines under the
> > >>> hood of one well equipped PC.
> > >>>
> > >>> I set this up at home using a highly custom method, its not in
> > >>> operation at the moment, however it works quite well.
> > >>>
> > >>> On 2/14/07, Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> How stable is stable? I need audio in LTSP and the one that should "just
> > >>>> work" is Feisty.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> adam bultman wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> I just upgraded my "outside" pc to fawn the other day. The PC doesn't
> > >>>>> reboot properly (like the computers of old, it isn't smart enough to
> > >>>>> reboot itself) and fawn seems rather nice, so far. Fairly stable,
> > >>>>> from a command-line point of view. Fawn also has proper drivers for
> > >>>>> the MEGARAID RAID card it has in it.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Adam
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Damien Hull wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> Check out the testing version of Ubuntu.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2006-December/000225.html
> > >>>>>>
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