[ale] for all you systemd haters...

[Jim Kinney]

On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 13:23 -0800, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> > It also (for all practical purposes) made multi-seat Linux systems 
> > feasible; that is a single box with different users simultaneously 
> > logged in using different sets of
> > displays/keyboards/etc.  Granted, 
> > other things like rootless X (via KMS) were also necessary, but
> > logind 
> > tied it all together and finally made it work.
> 
> But isn't this what thin-clients did ages ago?  You had a keyboard,
> mouse, local GPU, local display manager and everything else ran on
> the
> central machine.  Some older versions of Windows had that and I
> remember
> thin clients for using X as well.
> 
Different stuff. It's literally a multi-port video card with a screen
attached to display only one users' stuff. Picture a desktop with 6
users all with their own keyboard, display and mouse. Multi-console
makes more sense.

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