Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:06:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> I've always wondered about the possibilities of setting up more than one >> desktop on a single system. And by more than one desktop, I mean full >> KVM, audio, and USB (preferably with the ability to tell which desktop is >> doing >> the plugging). Ideally, the kind of thing that could host more than one >> gamer. > > You mean something like having one central machine that runs all the > software along with, say, 50 or 60 desktops which are exported as remote > X sessions to a bunch of remote graphical terminals?
Well, more like the next level. One machine driving two physically connected consoles in the same proximity. > Been there, done that. Look up XDMCP. It's not actually that hard to > do under the X architecture, but it really wows people nonetheless. Not > quite up to your gaming ideal, though - even if you had a machine with > the horsepower to run 50 copies of $FAVORITE_GAME simultaneously, the > delays introduced by shipping the video over the network would be a > killer. I'm familiar with XDMCP, used it extensively back in high school. Lack of XDMCP is one of those things that irritates me so much about Windows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
