[ltp] Off topic about Bit Torrent

flokno@gmx.net linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:22:14 +0200


On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:10, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Don Perley wrote:
> > The only down side I've seen is that it needs to be running on a graphic 
> > console (whether X or windows).  If the computer needs to  be shared 
> > among family members then in Linux you can't just leave it running and 
> > log off. In XP it can keep running in a swapped out login.
> 
> This was already possible on Linux long before Windows supported it. 
> 
> You just need to run two or more X servers (first time I did this, it was
> on a 33 MHz i486 with 8 MB RAM, so quite long ago) I think some distros
> even support this out of the box a user friendly/understandable way today,
> like XP does.
> 

or use screen when in text console.

  flo