"modern" KVM that works?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> writes:
>
> Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com> writes:
> > Try as I might, I can't seem to get past it: I'm surprised to see
> > "raspberry pi" and "KVM" mentioned together. What are you doing with
> > the raspberry pi?
>
> I'm not doing anything with it. My 15 year old got one for Xmas a year
> ago and is doing various things. Currently he wants to write an
> operating system from scratch.
>
> But why are "Pi" and "KVM" a surprising pair?

I figured either:

    * it's running a GUI, in which case one can use x2x, VNC,
      x2vnc, Synergy, or some combination thereof (depending on
      what OS the _other_ computer is running, and how many
      monitors are available) and just connect to the raspberry pi
      over the network; or:

    * it's not running a GUI, in which case one can use a serial
      cable (and a terminal window on the other computer).

If the raspberry pi is not even running an OS, that'd presumably fit
into my "not running a GUI" category; and I'd sort-of expect someone
who's "getting hardware-trained" or "wants to write an OS from scratch"
to get experience using a serial console anyway.

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