[wellylug] second computer

[Arnim Littek]

On Mon, 9 May 2005 08:50:22 +1200 Peter Jones <PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz> wrote:
> If you have the two computers on the same desk, why not forgo the second
> monitor, keyboard and mouse and instead get a small two port KVM switch such
> as this

I'm not trying to take business away from DSE, but why bother, if you've got machines running X?

The whole point of X is to provide a network interface (via xdm/kdm/gdm and ssh).  With one keyboard/screen I look after half a dozen Linux/xBSD boxen and my wife's iBook (via ssh).  If need be, I even poke her antique WinME box with VNC, but that's a performance hit (given that all but two are 500MHz and under).

No doubt others on this list have other ways to avoid extra hardware clutter.

Arnim.

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