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On 12/20/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> My dad had raised the question recently about getting my mom, now |
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> 76,using Linux. We went down the path of looking for a new machine but |
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> decided to put it off until after Christmas. I recently started |
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> wondering about using a single computer for two separate people. Can X |
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> do this? |
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> Neither person taxes the computer at all so performance is not |
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> likely to be a big deal with them. Please don't worry too much about |
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> that. There is plenty of disk space, etc. My mom just uses Hotmail and |
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> does very little else with her old Windows ME box which she hates due |
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> to pop-ups, etc. |
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> If I added a second VGA adapter, PCI based, and specifically made |
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> sure it was something different from the NVidia he has installed, and |
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> then added a USB keyboard and mouse, whereas his current mouse and |
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> keyboard are ps/2, then could the new monitor and new keyboard mouse |
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> be linked up to create a second gdm login screen? |
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> Thanks in advance for any ideas. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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I found in freshmeat this project: |
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http://userful.com/products/ds |
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But it is commercial, and based on Fedora Core. |
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Andres |
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