On 11/11/24 16:14, Dan Purgert wrote:
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.
Or another possibility, Dan. Where he/she went to school, the profs were
windows people. Quality of education. I don't have that limitation, the
only windows machine I ever had was an early xp hp lappy cuz I needed a
lappy and couldn't buy it anyway but with xp on it. It had Mndrake on it
a week later. I came to computing by way of os9 level one on a 64k color
computer, mulltitasking, and multiuser from the gitgo. "Can't" is not in
my vocabulary. That is probably why I "paint myself into a corner" so often.
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..."
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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