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 Multi Seat.
With the "5 monsters", each having a separate keyboard and mouse, I
wonder whether the "monsters" means users...
It appears that the "workstation is to be set up as a server, with dumb
terminals, like UNIX from about 30 years ago (I remember when, in Perth,
Western Australia, the Compaq shop was selling a Compaq 386 computer
with 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 keyboards and meeces ("I hate meeces to pieces" :) ), or, if
the monitors can be served from USB sockets, 15 USB sockets.
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 being, I believe, quite expensive to buy new.
So, I believe that it would be less expensive, to buy five separate
computers, probably low-end "laptop" computers, upon which Debian can be
installed, and, install Debian on each of them.
Or, computers with Debian preinstalled...
https://laptopwithlinux.com/laptops-with-debian-linux-preinstalled/
https://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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