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No, only 2. The Userful method is free for only 2 desktops. It's paid if you want all 10. At least that was the impression I got. I didn't really follow through because I discovered the swap problem.

I can't imagine doing this on Winders. I can't imagine a single machine powerful enough to let 2 users run full desktops at the same time, frankly.

I don't really have the power to do this either. But it's good practice for testing and discoverey for the machine upgrade I'll do later this year. For the time being Junior will be able to play his games any time I'm not using the machine without my having to log out (I keep it screensaver locked when I'm not around anyway).

I'd set him up on the Mac, but Mrs. Midget wouldn't like him spending so much time with only linux (a given that she's going to have to regulate some anyway), and duel-booting Macs aren't the easiest or most intuitive ways of doing things. I could probably teach a 7-year-old to do it. But Mrs. Midget is enough of a technophobe that she'd be loathe to try solving problems that required her to worry about reading little text and getting her timing right.

-- "Ironically, Microsoft's efforts to deny interoperability of Windows with legitimate non-Microsoft applications have created an environment in which Microsoft's programs interoperate efficiently only with Internet viruses." - Dan Geer.