<html><head></head><body><div>On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 13:23 -0800, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">
It also (for all practical purposes) made multi-seat Linux systems
feasible; that is a single box with different users simultaneously
logged in using different sets of displays/keyboards/etc. Granted,
other things like rootless X (via KMS) were also necessary, but logind
tied it all together and finally made it work.
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But isn't this what thin-clients did ages ago? You had a keyboard,
mouse, local GPU, local display manager and everything else ran on the
central machine. Some older versions of Windows had that and I remember
thin clients for using X as well.
</pre></blockquote><div>Different stuff. It's literally a multi-port video card with a screen attached to display only one users' stuff. Picture a desktop with 6 users all with their own keyboard, display and mouse. Multi-console makes more sense.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://linuxgazette.net/124/smith.html">https://linuxgazette.net/124/smith.html</a></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>_______________________________________________
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