[IMC-Tech] Operating system

dan blah dan.blah at gmail.com
Fri Mar 10 13:56:33 CST 2006


pffff... i fear nothing!

On 3/10/06, Gary Cziko <g-cziko at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Dan:
>
>
>
> > Also, in the library area I was wanting combine some
> > available hardware we have laying around to create a multi head public
> > access terminal.  On one small table, with one computer, multiple
> > monitors, mice, and keyboards we can have 3+ independent access
> > terminals.  These would not be able to sustain heavy use, but would be
> > more than enough for each user to do casual web browsing and edit text
> > documents.  http://linuxgazette.net/124/smith.html has a
> howto on what
> > I am talking about.
>
>
> This sounds like a great idea, assuming space concerns are met.  But did you
> see this in the article you linked to?:
>
> "While the system worked very well, it was extremely unstable. In
> particular, we got a kernel oops fairly often when we logged out. . . .The
> problem persists. Please let bsmith at linuxtoys dot org know if you have
> any ideas that might help fix this problem."
>
> Sounds like it could be quite frustrating for both users and administrators.
>
> --Gary
>
>
>


--
Daniel


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