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

(cartoper@xxxxxxxxx) writes:
On Mar 25, 10:39 pm, "Fran=E7ois 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)

Fran=E7ois,

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.

Have you checked the existing HOWTOs? I'm sure I saw something somewhere,
maybe it wasn't a HOWTO, that explained how to use more than one video
card.

The limitation is likely the hardware. I don't know how video cards are
addressed, but if they require the same address, that's a problem.
Likewise, up until USB, there wasn't really any good way of adding
multiple keyboards.

Traditionally, Unix was never used with built in video, it used serial
ports to connect to terminals. Doing it your way would be a modern
way.

Michael

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