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Virtual Terminals - VT's
OK, so now you sit there with your Linux prompt, doing nice things.. try pressing Alt+F2.. Wow, a brand new login prompt ! Try pressing ALT+F3.. Another one. Press Alt+F1, back at the old one.. this way you can do several things at once, logging in as yourself at tty1 and perhaps as root on tty2, this way making your system administration effective. Usually there are 6 Virtual Terminals. This might seem obvious, but I'm writing this document with the new user in mind.