Advocacy - Was: Re: Window dressings - a maddog story (Was: Any Opinions on SuSE 10.0 vs other Distros)

[Brian Chabot]

Bill McGonigle wrote:

> Roughly, you put in n video cards/ports, hook up n/monitors and
> keyboard/mouse combinations and let n users work off of the same
> computer.  Given spare CPU capacity (say, with a dual-core chip) you
> add users for the cost of a RAM stick.  With dual-head cards you ought
> to be able to server a dozen 'cafe stations' off of one 'server-class'
> computer.


Sounds like something I saw in a catalog a few years ago for Windoze. 

The only problems I can see are where do you plug in the keyboard and
mouse (assuming ps/2 rather than usb or how do you configure it if usb)
... and how long can you get the cabloes for this hydra?

> Sounds like an 'Internet Cafe in a Box' to me for someone sufficiently
> motivated to market such a product. 


Hmm.... I love the idea of the internet cafe, but they never seem to
have caught on in the US. 

I can see it now...

"The Happy Hydra Penguin Gourmet Internet Cafe"...

Brian