The title needs work from The Register but the rest of the article seems fine

and it has multiseat support, allowing multiple users to share one PC simultaneously with separate keyboards and display

I built novus, a layer on top of Ubuntu… 5.04? 6.something? It was about 15 years ago or so, and I built software that allowed 5 users to work on a 1GB Celeron computer with 1 internal video and 4 video cards. Audio worked with 5 USB audio cards, and the mice and keyboards also all were over USB.

There was a setup program that would automatilly run of config was missing that would show a number on a monitor, you pressed the keyboard an nouse and the system knew what monitor went with what keyboard. Same for sound, a sample would play on each sound card and you’d press the keyboard for that one

We had the UI KDE with a configuration that made it look like windows XP.

It even allowed one person to run windows XP In a virtual box environment

It was meant for schools in Mexico but even though the software was near perfect, it never materialized, it was never used unfortunately

Is this “legacy in-kernel console” the same thing as the tty you get when you do like Ctrl+Alt+1 etc?

I originally thought this was related to HTPC gaming consoles by the title lmao

Sounds neat; let’s hope it is distro- and init-system-neutral.

Sounds good, but I hope it’s still usable when the graphics system is fucked. I’ve had to switch to a text console to unfuck my system too many times to count.

The keyboard shortcuts in kmscon look useful, scroll, zoom, rotate, etc

https://github.com/kmscon/kmscon/blob/main/scripts/etc/kmscon.conf.example