Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> With multi-seat (ISTR the term originated at Redhat), people started > to re-invent what a "user session" means. In a confusingly and quite > irritatingly new manner, mind you. So you now (yay!) can have two Gnome > sessions. But you pay the price that a Gnome session is quite a different > beast

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 04:13:59PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Nov 11, 2024, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: [...] > > Multiseat is one particular form of multiuser computer. There are > > lots of other forms. A computer where one person at a time uses it is > > called a single user computer

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread gene heskett
On 11/11/24 16:14, Dan Purgert wrote: On Nov 11, 2024, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 13:33:08 +0100, Roger Price wrote: I'm guessing "version". How about Debian 12 (bookworm). Have you read https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO ?

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Dan Purgert
On Nov 11, 2024, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 13:33:08 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > > > I'm guessing "version". How about Debian 12 (bookworm). Have you > > > read https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO ? > > > > Oh. I've learne

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 8:10 AM Bret Busby wrote: > On 11/11/24 22:00, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 11 Nov 2024 21:24 +0800, from b...@busby.net (Bret Busby): > >> Whilst this computer that I am using, has about ten USB sockets > (including > >> four on the front), I expect that a similar worksta

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Joe
On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 13:33:08 +0100 (CET) Roger Price wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, brian mckee wrote: > > > I have a work station.   > > If I put debian on it. > > I want it to have 5 monsters. > > I'm guessing 5 "monitors". > > > 5 key boards. > > 5 mice. > > So 5 people can long in. At sam

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread debian-user
Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 11 Nov 2024 21:24 +0800, from b...@busby.net (Bret Busby): > > Whilst this computer that I am using, has about ten USB sockets > > (including four on the front), I expect that a similar workstation > > to this, would be required, or, a proper server, with all of the >

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 13:33:08 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > > I'm guessing "version". How about Debian 12 (bookworm). Have you > > read https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO ? > > Oh. I've learned something today. I looked at that page and what I immediatel

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Bret Busby wrote: > With the "5 monsters", each having a separate keyboard and mouse, I wonder > whether the "monsters" means users... > > UNIX, to serve up to 32 users), and that, if this is the case, the > workstation would need to have 5 video sockets and 10 USB sockets to serve > the keyboard

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/11/24 22:00, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 11 Nov 2024 21:24 +0800, from b...@busby.net (Bret Busby): Whilst this computer that I am using, has about ten USB sockets (including four on the front), I expect that a similar workstation to this, would be required, or, a proper server, with all of

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Roger Price
On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, Bret Busby wrote: ..., the workstation would need to have 5 video sockets and 10 USB sockets to serve the keyboards and meeces, or, if the monitors can be served from USB sockets, 15 USB sockets. .. I expect that a similar workstation to this, would be required, or, a pro

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 11 Nov 2024 21:24 +0800, from b...@busby.net (Bret Busby): > Whilst this computer that I am using, has about ten USB sockets (including > four on the front), I expect that a similar workstation to this, would be > required, or, a proper server, with all of the required sockets, both > options be

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Luna Jernberg
Xorg Den mån 11 nov. 2024 kl 14:50 skrev Michael Kjörling : > > On 11 Nov 2024 06:51 -0600, from nickgeova...@gmail.com (Nicholas Geovanis): > > In principle it should be possible with any X-Windows system. But I don't > > know if xfree86 itself can do that, it might require the X display manager

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 11 Nov 2024 06:51 -0600, from nickgeova...@gmail.com (Nicholas Geovanis): > In principle it should be possible with any X-Windows system. But I don't > know if xfree86 itself can do that, it might require the X display manager > and full X-Windows. Pretty sure Debian hasn't used XFree86 in a ve

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/11/24 20:33, Roger Price wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, brian mckee wrote: I have a work station. If I put debian on it. I want it to have 5 monsters. I'm guessing 5 "monitors". 5 key boards. 5 mice. So 5 people can long in. At same time. I'm guessing "login".  It's sometimes called Mu

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 6:43 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 13:33:08 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > > I'm guessing "version". How about Debian 12 (bookworm). Have you read > > https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO ? > > Oh. I've learned something today. > In principle

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 13:33:08 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > I'm guessing "version". How about Debian 12 (bookworm). Have you read > https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO ? Oh. I've learned something today.