I have some desktops (the tower kind) lying around and I’m wondering if there’s a way that I can connect them all to one display and combine their computational power or at least make them all accessible in one place. I want to get into server hosting but only have one monitor. They’re currently running LMDE.

Any ideas?

  • @anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5•4 days ago

    I’m wondering if there’s a way [to] combine their computational power.

    Only if your problem can be be split up reasonably, otherwise you will spend more time waiting for data to move.
    Where it can work: video encoding, CI pipelines, data analysis
    Where it won’t work: interactive stuff, most single file operations

    I want to get into server hosting […]

    Then you don’t need another reason to do it.

    [If] I can connect them all to one display [or] make them all accessible in one place.

    You can either get a hardware switch or chose a primary computer and connect to the others. For that you can use remote desktop software or be a try hard and use ssh.

    • @countrypunk@slrpnk.netOP
      1•4 days ago

      The hardware switch looks promising. Are there any decent ones for under $50 out there or are they usually a big investment?

        • Morphit
          1•4 days ago

          Barrier is only for inputs IIRC. To get Keyboard Mouse and Video (more usually KVM) you need some kind of remote desktop software. Rustdesk is pretty straightforward. I think Gnome handles RDP access natively now if you’re running a Gnome based Linux distro. Otherwise XRDP is a bit of a faff, but solid once it’s working.