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Idea #8256: two display, two keyboard, two mice from 1 PC

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #3442: "Click-n-play" Multiseat support .
Written by communical the 8 May 08 at 21:42. Category: Hardware support. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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It will be great idea to get in Ubuntu such function:
two working places from one PC.
2 TFT displays, two keyboard, 2 mice, one (HDD, CPU,RAM, Network) is cheaper than the same plus two HDD, CPU, RAM, etc. It's VERY useful for developing countries (Russia, Africa, etc).
It also save money and power
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Written by communical the 8 May 08 at 21:42.
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nazgand wrote on the 8 May 08 at 22:58
http://www.ncomputing.com/

In here( http://www.ncomputing.com/Casestudies/Education/RepublicofMacedonia/tabid/92/De fault.aspx ) , it mentions that every student has a virtual computer, and the host computers are ubuntu based.

So with ncomputing, it is already possible to have up to 30 virtual computers per real computer, and I suspect with some tinkering, you could have more.

1+ anyways, because it is a good idea.

davim wrote on the 8 May 08 at 23:13
this would also be possible with MPX http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/

shirish wrote on the 9 May 08 at 03:27
what's different with this and multi-touch input idea. Both seem the same or similar.

Sidney wrote on the 9 May 08 at 09:28
shirish: Are you talking about this idea? If yes, please read again.

And we already have this feature.

davim wrote on the 9 May 08 at 13:42
this has nothing to do with the multi touch idea, I've just mentioned the MPX because this is one way of having this feature, there are others...

drinkypoo wrote on the 9 May 08 at 22:01
we have this feature, is it easy? seems like something that should be in the handbook at least. more and more people want to do it and it could be the feature that brings people in.

mlapaglia wrote on the 10 May 08 at 22:56
isn't this called multi-seating?

You can do this with any video card that support two separate monitors. Nvidia can do this fairly easy, but yes having built in support and a nice GUI would be promising.

I did this to my home computer, and instead of buying two sub-par computers (minimalist budget available) I bought one computer, and spent some of the saved cash on the one computer. Now both of my brothers can use the computer at the same time.


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