I wonder are we talking just about having multiple users because that I still do. Or are we talking about doing what my wife and I used to do by connecting a keyboard and a screen for her and a keyboard for me and both logging into the same Linux box. I could see two blind people doing that and would hate to lose that ability. Of course now days computers are so much cheaper I don't know that we will ever see that like we did in the early days of linux. Ken -----Original Message----- From: Karen Lewellen <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 7:47 PM To: Chime Hart <chime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Didier Spaier <didier@xxxxxxxx>; Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx>; speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: A curiosity about multi-user systems? I admit from a limited knowledge stance, is not this ability what makes it possible for someone to create a shell service? what chime is doing seems like a solid example of what I do, after a fashion,with multiple drives running different editions of the same software. regardless, why remove something that can be useful to someone? is not that part of what is supposed to make Linux unique? Karen On Thu, 25 Feb 2021, Chime Hart wrote: > Well Didier, I have 24 consoles opened in Debian Sid. Many of these I > have sitting in different directories for either playing or > downloading items. Its certainly a convience, as much as a 30number > speed-calling list on a landline is. And as a news-junky, when I want > to rip streams, I have a menu-driven application which a Linux audio > expert wrote for me. So I launch that on many consoles to record. I am > certainly not running graphical, but for xvfb-run to listen to some streams which mpv won't play. > Chime > > > >
