Re: multiuser scripts from a commercial vendor

[James S. <jsi...@ww...>]

> This is long overdue, but I'd like to formally offer something back to
> this project.  My company sells pre-configured Linux machines including
> multi-user systems, and everything we do is open source.  While we don't
> have the bandwidth to offer our full install disc for download, for
> starters I've made a small page containing the most relevant scripts for
> the linux console project:
> 
> http://groovix.com/linuxconsole.html
> 
> Among other things, Groovix scripts detect how many users to run, handle
> multi-user sound, and let you plug in mice, keyboards, sound cards, and
> video cards wherever you want, while maintaining consistent assignment
> between reboots. They are pretty simple scripts, but work well.
> 
> You might also get a lot of useful info just by browsing our site,
> including exact specifications on what hardware we use.  We tried to give
> you guys credit, currently at http://groovix.com/faq.html , third question
> down. If you have any questions or suggestions you can send email directly
> to lin...@gr... as we don't always keep up with this
> mailing list.

   Wow!!! I guess you beat me to the punch. I was planning to try to start 
a company to support this project and so I could actually work on it full 
time. I even wanted to hire the other developers here over time. As you 
must of noticed progress is at a snail pace here because we all have to 
pay the bills and no one ever cared about this project. I have in the past
asked distros and other people for support but nobody cared :-(
   The original code I wrote 2 years ago. Originally we had much more code 
but Vojtech merged in the input changes and I merged the fbdev changes 
into 2.6.X. More fbdev changes need to go in but the majority of it is 
done. Recently I have been busy with the fbdev layer but since I work for a 
living doing something else that progress is at a snail pace as well. Again
nobody cares. So Aivils has been handling this core code base.
   Thanks for the scripts but I doubt you will hire the developers here as 
I was hoping too. This just sends another stake threw my heart.