From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 23 14:21:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2DA316A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:21:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E14D43D4C for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:21:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([82.161.136.218]:10072 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CsicI-00022y-Hs; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:21:26 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E8CA1A9A7; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:21:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.108] (ip54513cd0.direct-adsl.nl [84.81.60.208]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF40E37021; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:21:26 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41F3B2D3.7070203@scii.nl> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:21:07 +0100 From: albi User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041228) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Jayson Alvarez References: <20050123130704.53807.qmail@web51606.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050123130704.53807.qmail@web51606.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse + FreeBSD, is it possible?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:21:29 -0000 Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > FreeBSD is multi-user right? yes > I know this setup but > only when other users are logging in remotely via > another pc. I just want to know if it is possible for > me to just buy 1 more monitor, a mouse and a keyboard > and just dig a hole between my brother's room and mine > and share with him my pc. I really wanted him to learn > the inner workings of computer, but we cannot afford > to buy another computer. Used computers are cheaper > but not as cheap as just buying another used monitor > and a keyboard. I've heard something like a dumb > terminal but I guess it still requires another cpu. i've been looking for a similar thing, and i know it's possible for linux, as you can see here : http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/ http://www.scii.nl/projects/3hm/ the idea is to have more than 1 extra videocard in the machine and then use 2 or more keyboards and mice, personally i think this is a great hack and i've been searching for something like that for FreeBSD but have not found it one other thing you can do however is to get yourself at least a pentiumI with 32 Mb RAM and a NIC with PXE and make that a diskless client attached to your machine see here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html http://www.the-labs.com/FreeBSD/Diskless/