Re: HOWTO: turn one linux PC into multple stations for kiosk

On Mar 25, 10:39 pm, "François Patte" <francois.pa...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
paris5.fr> wrote:
On 24 mar, 17:50, carto...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

It is my understanding that back in the old days of UNIX (80's), that
it was not uncommon to find one physical machine with multiple dumb
terminals. I need to setup a 5 station kiosk system that will run a
web browser. It dawned on me that in theory I should be able to use
Linux on one physical box and simply put multiple video cards in it
and hook up multiple keyboards/mice to it. The only question is:
how? Are there any howto or faq's out there on the subject?

See http://www.ltsp.org/

Linux Terminal Server Project

You need to buy thin clients or use old PC that you turn into thin
clients (The PC must have PXE boot capable BIOS)

François,

I am putting together a portable kiosk system. I am trying to get it
down to simply one physical box and needing only multiple monitors,
keyboards, and mice. I was always under the impression that Linux
could do that, some how.

Cartoper


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