[kwlug disc.] Multi-headed Linux server

[Ilguiz Latypov]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:38:15PM -0500, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> At the meeting on Monday talk drifted to an idea of Brent Clement's: Get one powerful honking 
> Linux server and hang a bunch of keyboards, mouses and monitors off it, then use it as a 
> relatively cheap multi-user server.  The trick, of course, is to keep track of all the various 
> keyboard and mouse events, and make sure they all work the correct display.
> 
> There's a bit of hardware that makes this much easier:  Ndiyo, essentially a VNC client in a 
> matchbox. See the picture on http://www.ndiyo.org/intro/summary  (the Web site is awful wordy 
> for a box that's so small).  An even smaller device can be seen at 
> http://www.ndiyo.org/blog/2006/12/06/a-sneak-preview/

So they moved the X Server functionality of a traditional X Window
workstation to X Window server and embedded VNC client into a
little box?  This would make workstations ultra-light indeed.
Nice idea.

And I guess VNC servers can run separately from the main server.

I wonder if the good folks at RealVNC have found a way to encode
shift-key events.  This isn't available in the version 4 of VNC
client and vino 2.16.

-- 
Ilguiz