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Dual users for a Linux Box

Hi,

I have a board with Dual VGA out. The OS of choice is Linux (Fedora Core 2/Xandros) cause they have the capability of supporting multiple users. My question is that is there a way to have 2 simultaneous users having different logins and different views considering the fact that the linux box has enough processor speed and memory. Also how is it possible to have multiple Mouse and Keyboard outputs.

I want to try this out as an experiment so that I can share my Desktop with my roommate without him having to buy another CPU for no obvious reason. So let me know if anyone has done this or has some links to where i can find a solution to this.

Regards
Samir Savla

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Hi Knollbert,

Well I do expect to use 2 mice and 2 keyboards in addition to 2 VGA display devices. I essentially want to have a single CPU but acting as 2 different computers. Since Linux allows multiple simultaneous user I want to be able to utilize that feature and dont want to do it over the network.

Regards
Samir Savla

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Another alternative is to have you friend get a very cheap computer which would act as a dumb terminal.
Get your computer to act as a X server and his to connect to it.