Hi,
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 03:46:24PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
>
> >
> > I personally have an old SGI Indy, that I got for almost free, and I only
> > use as an XTerminal (for the 300Mhz Celeron "server"). It has a 133Mhz
> > R4600, with speed comparable to a 100Mhz Pentium, but is quite good
> > as an XTerminal (with a quite good 19" monitor). And, to answer Michael's
> > question, Irix runs on it better than Linux for now, so I run Irix and
> > wait (maybe forever, there is not too much activity on Linux for Indy).
>
> One small feature of linux (at least of x86 linux ?) that I find gravely
> missing with a simple Irix/Solaris/hpux when used as an X terminal is the
> virtual consoles.
I totally agree. On my main machine I run at boot 4 X servers, with
different depths and resolutions. This makes it easy for my family to
log in on another virtual console while someone is logged in (as well
as easily changing depths/resolutions).
Virtual consoles are also supported on Linux/Indy.
One feature I miss is virtual resolution of the X server. SGI's server,
as well as XFree on Linux/Indy, doesn't have that.
But anyway, the Xserver on Linux/Indy is much slower then SGI's, and
I was told by the developer this won't change soon, because SGI doesn't
give enough docs on DMA and other accelerations.
Didi
>
> On linux you can have more than one terminal simultaniously. So on a room
> with several people you could setup three X servers on three different
> consoles (or something similar). And you could also allow local sessions
> (although that may not be welcome. Anyway, removing the local getty-s from
> inittab is easy).
>
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen
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> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
>
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