In schools and offices, every student and employee usually work on their own PC. According to many, this is a big waste of energy and processor power. Students browsing and typing up work on a P4, Employees playing solitaire on a Core 2 Duo... But you wouldnt want to work at a Pentium 2, would you?

Well, the solution is so simple its hard to believe it hasn't been implemented yet. Imagine if you were in charge of buying computer systems for 80 students. Wouldnt you prefer to buy 40 PC's rather than 80? Soon it will be possible. Researchers have designed a system that allows 2 operating systems to run on a single PC, split-screen. By simply connecting another keyboard and mouse, 2 users can work on their own stuff! Better yet, some companies have already made system that support up to 6 users running Ubuntu, even with beryl, on one Athlon64 PC.

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nah... i prefer my own pc in school!!! easier to "mess" wit stuff on it! :P

Lol.

Actually, this is kinda old.  It's known as Virtualization Technology, and already exists in Core 2's and AMD's AM2 processors.
As for power, most modern CPUs can scale down the clockspeed when not in use (thus reducing power consumption).  The Intel Core 2 is a prime example, being based on a laptop CPU.

(This post was last modified: 06/05/2007 06:12 AM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)

but what would you rather have, a P4 pc with a cheapass keyboard, mouse and 15" nobrand tft, or a 19" Samsung TFT, Logitech keyboard and laser mouse? And a Core 2 Duo PC which you get half of (meaning, if the other half is unoccupied...)

still rather my own pc man! ;P
then again if u could get into the other persons half of the pc and fook it up on them it would b fun!! but i can already get into other pcs in school from mine!! god bless teachers that type their password in front of u! :P

(This post was last modified: 06/05/2007 06:17 AM by J'adore le paissons.)

Lol but its not the point

With this technology you can run just 2 side by side operating systems, which is exaclty the same as ur own PC.
@ Zinga virtualisation isn't that more like an OS in an OS?

Also, this is different from linux 'multiseat' which has been around for a while, it lets you configure a linux OS to have multiple graphical users logged in at once on different screens with different keyboards. This is one OS with 2 sessions, this new technology is 2 seperate OSes. So you could have one person running debian and the other running XP at the same time

Im thinking about the linux multiseat though, and I might just make one using edubuntu, and show my school's ICT dept. Imagine if they would switch a section of the library to linux multiseat... that would be insane

lolz... 4 -6 ppl on 1 PC? someone kick the power switch and 6 down a few to go!!!

BluDevil Wrote:lolz... 4 -6 ppl on 1 PC? someone kick the power switch and 6 down a few to go!!!

yep, that would be fun.

and u'll also have problems with lets say, sharing 1 DVD drive, limited amounts of USB ports, whatever, between 6 people.

lol
ok ye its not really a good idea for schools
but what about public libraries

mmzz.. not really either... in libs they might be serious and researching lolz... and 1 person happen to press "restart/shutdown comp" BOOM gone.