# XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO

### Svetoslav Slavtchev

`<svetoslav (at) users.sourcefourge.net>`

Aug 2004

Revision History
Revision 1.4 | 2004-08-14 | Revised by: SS
add some info on the new IsolateDevice XFree/X.org, drop some stalled comments about ruby-2.6 (a lot more must be removed - linux-2.6 is table now)
Revision 1.3 | 2003-11-11 | Revised by: SS
Ruby-2.6 is working :) , sync to new BRuby, add config file paths for Gentoo
Revision 1.2 | 2003-09-17 | Revised by: SS
Lots, lots of stuff. the most major things: XFree-PrefBusID v3, input.rc (and exp. service ruby_init), add "Known Limitations"
Revision 1.1 | 2003-07-14 | Revised by: SS
sync input agent with examples, a bit more about ruby, less Fix-Me's, additions to video compatibility
Revision 1.0 | 2003-05-13 | Revised by: TP
Initial release, reviewed by LDP.

This HOWTO explains one of the ways to get a working, multiple, local X user-capable PC system for up to 16 users. It is based on using a modified Linux kernel with support for multiple independent users . The second way is not covered here, but on the web page of it's author, the pioneer Miguel Freitas.

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