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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Multiseat -- LTSP?
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:49:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EB8F44ED-EBD8-4EF6-BABC-59E2FCA2CDE5@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw2GCkD33GONu6nSMkaNbRwDpn43Ag=c-KCU5tm-=pHnPw@mail.gmail.com>


On 30 January 2012, at 17:41, Grant wrote:
>> ...
>> Can you rely on Xorg devs to ensure that they are not going to break your
>> multiseat system in the future?
> 
> Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't know why there would be (much) more
> likelihood of regression with Xorg multiseat than with anything else,
> including LTSP and all of its dependencies. 

Because fewer people are testing it.

You can get low-powered Linux systems for $100 or $150 - either a little MIPs ShivaPlug or (I guess) a secondhand atom nettop (Acer Revo).

If you save 2 hours per machine by using a standard and common thinclient configuration, then the hardware has paid for itself.

If you have to employ a Linux sys admin to help you fix a complicated problem with Xorg multiseat, then it will run you at least $100 or $150 for those 2 hours. That's how you should be valuing your own time, too.

Stroller.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-31  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-29  5:26 [gentoo-user] Multiseat -- LTSP? Grant
2012-01-29 12:02 ` Mick
2012-01-29 23:29   ` Grant
2012-01-30  9:19     ` Helmut Jarausch
2012-01-30 17:19       ` Grant
2012-01-30 10:35     ` Mick
2012-01-30 17:41       ` Grant
2012-01-31  0:49         ` Stroller [this message]
2012-01-31  2:53           ` Grant
2012-01-31 19:46             ` Grant
2012-02-03 15:34     ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-02-03 16:32       ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2012-02-03 18:24       ` [gentoo-user] " Grant
2012-02-03 18:35         ` Michael Mol

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