Re: One computer, two screens, keyboards and mouses?
From: angel (angel_at_hell.es)
Date: 10/11/04
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Date: 11 Oct 2004 01:46:45 GMT
"Jimi Hullegård" <ask-for-real-email@nothotmail.com> wrote:
> I want a system (ie computer) that can handle two simultaneous users, each
> with their own set of screen, keyboard and mouse.
>
> Since I use Windows now, I wanted to continue using windows. And I found a
> company that can make that possible:
> http://www.aldenassociates.net/
I don't know how expensive this might be (and I am not interested in
getting to know), but I'm sure you can get much more for much less
money.
> But then I have gotten suggestions about FreeBSD, and that it can do this
> without special hardware. Apperantly it's called multiuser.
> Is that correct? Can I have a true multiuser system with FreeBSD and only
> one computer? If so, what is needed?
It is trye, of course, that you can get fully real multiuser (not just
two, but many, many, many users) with FreeBSD, as well as with any
other UN!X-like systems around (OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux, etc, etc, etc)
since decades.
The point is that, multiuser is not what you are thinking about. You
can have several people working at the same system, bat logged in from
different boxes (computers).
What I would do in your case is get a second hand PC for little money
(you need to get an screen, keyboard and mouse, anyway, don't you?) on
eBay or a local second hand seller (let's say a Pentium or Pentium II
---of course, the faster, the better---) and install FreeBSD on it. I
would then connect the two boxes (Windonw$ and FreeBSD) using a crossed
ethernet cable and a couple of ethernet adapters ---they are cheap---.
This way, I would use the FreeBSD box to remotelly connect to the
Window$ box through the rdesktop client for the M$-Terminal server and
use VNC on NX to connect (the other way around) from the Window$ box to
the FreeBSD box.
At some point you might discover that you do more often the second, and
will want to put FreeBSD (or any other UN!X-like system on the ``big''
box.
I myself do a similar thing at home but, of course, I don't use
Window$, but FreeBSD (Pentium 90 / 128MB RAM), OpenBSD (486DX2-66 /
64MB RAM) and Debian GNU/Linux (Celeron 500 384MB RAM).
Most of the time I sit on the P90 (which iis more silent than the
Celeron) and I connect to the Celeron to do most of the work. I use the
486 mostly as web/file/printer/email/news/... server.
> And since I never ever has tried FreeBSD, how difficult is it to get the
> system up and running for a total newbie like me?
> I looked at www.freebsd.org and found nothing of real value when searching
> for multiuser.
It will take a bit of effort from you to get it going, but , if you
like computers and get things done by yourself it will also be a lot of
fun.
Regards,
Ángel
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