For some reason multiseat doesn’t call much attention in countries that are not of the third world. I can be radical, but in my humble opinion there is no reason to not apply this model of computation in certain types of environment (I’m talking about kiosks, Internet cafe, office, schools, etc). The money saved is enormous, and this is only one of the advantages that I am enumerating here.

There are a lot of solutions of multiseat and I like to separate it on two groups: (a) the hardware dependent and (b) hardware independent. The solutions of group (a) is the “backstreet ruby”, “evdev” and “faketty”. All of these starts severals instances of xservers and have a well known problem concerning the routing on VGA interface. There were efforts to implement VGA arbitration in the kernel before, but because of lack of community support, it never got in. Therefore, the solutions of group (a) works with a very limited graphics card vendors.

This is my first post and even my first blog. Well, the blog’s intention is to bring in evidence my interests about linux (and maybe music).