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HI folks, When I was playing around with Kubuntu at work on one of our new Dell PCs (Pentium D 820) I got wondering something. Would it be possible to run two desktops at the same time on one PC? Now I know there have been products in the past that provide an extra video output, keyboard, mouse and sound for Windows, but I wondered if it could be done cheaply on Linux? What I was thinking of was... Standard PC (say a average sort of spec Pentium D or Athlon 64) with an ample amount of memory (say 1GB). An extra video card (say PCI 128MB Radeon card or similar). An extra sound card (PCI cheapo sound card) A USB keyboard and mouse and extra monitor. I wondered if it would be possible to run two copies of X and Gnome/KDE etc on the one PC so one user is on the main monitor using the main keyboard/mouse/sound card and a second user is on a second monitor with a completely different desktop using the second video card, USB keyboard and mouse and extra sound card? I'm thinking something a bit like LTSP but one one machine? Is it possible to have more than one USB keyboard and mouse on a PC and then specify which one is used for input? If it is possible then I dare say it is another opportunity to put some of these high powered desktop PCs to a more cost effective use. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html