On November 30, 2003 07:24 pm, you wrote:
1. Does anyone know who is currently selling (Linux based) X-terminals?
X-terminal is the "canonical" solution for many situations. And, recent development in PXE network booting makes Etherboot, Netboot, Rom-a-matic, LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project), Mknbi-linux, Imggen, ... all obsolete. If you have 3c905 (what I have), then you can boot over network without above packages. I'm told you can also do that with Intel's ethernet card, as expected since PXE is Intel spec.
2. Do you think there is much demand for 2, 3, or 4 users logging onto single computer? ie. "Linux mainframe".
That is, multiple sets of monitors, keyboards, and mouses hooked up to single computer; much like serial terminals, but with XDM. This would be primarily aimed at home market, where you want to have one computer serving 2, 3, or 4 users, but don't want to buy 2, 3, or 4 separate computers.
Any comments or insights would be appreciated.
Don't forget the VNC solution. I've used it with great success on one of my contracts. One of its principle advantages over the X solutions is that the X client runs on the server and therefore continues to run even if the VNC viewer isn't currently on. This is a very slick way to maintain the state for a mobile worker for example. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml