On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:28, Will H. Backman wrote: > The virtual consoles emulate a bunch of the old dumb terminals that > would be attached to a Unix machine. Unix is multi-user. Having extra > consoles is really a good thing. If you manage to lock up your session, > you always have another terminal you can switch to for fixing things. > You don't want xdm to be the only gateway into the machine, as it may > get messed up.
Believe me, I understand and agree with what you write. OS/2's biggest dficiencty was that it was single user. What you write is the reason that I waited sooo long to try out xdm, thinking that I could lock myself out of my system if all the consoles locked up as a result of a mistake I made setting up xdm. Of course, now I know how to boot with rd and fix mistakes in files (as long as I can remember what I broke :-) ). What I dn't yet quite grasp is why there cannot be multiple independent instances of kde running, each one attached to a different virtual terminal (C0-C3) on the same computer. Then I could be logged on as two different users simultaneously, switching back and forth between screens using the ctl-alt-fcn keys. If this is not possible right now on OpenBSD, it might be an interesting project.
