On Nov 11, 2024, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> 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 immediately learned is that it seems > to have been written by a presumably young person who has forgotten or > never knew the meaning of multi-user. > > 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. It is not a multi user computer.
I read the article as not really counting a shared computer with multiple discrete users as quite "multi-user" beyond a nod of the head towards "yes, yes, I know multiple users are sharing one PC..." -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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