[X2go-dev] Off-the-shelf thin clients

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 14:10 +0200, Philipp Huebner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 23.07.2010 17:27, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 14:20 +0200, Philipp Huebner wrote:
> [...]
> >> They have Firefox installed, so you should be able to use the X2go
> >> firefox plugin.
> > <snip>
> > The last point about Firefox is interesting.  I don't have units here to
> > test but, if Firefox is installed on a thin client, can one run the
> > plugin? If one can run it, will it be written to flash so itis available
> > in the future or will it need to be downloaded every time one wants to
> > run X2Go? Actually, I'm guessing the plugin is not cached in memory but
> > always must be written to disk since it asks to restart Firefox.  Can
> > the thin clients write such a plugin to disk? Thanks - John
> 
> Most the system is on a read-only mounted partition, but there is a
> small read-write partition to store settings.
> 
> With a little bit of typical Linux know-up you can modify anything on
> the system. It's a normal flash-drive. Mount it rw and anything is
> possible. You could prepare one thin-client, create an image and copy
> that onto all the others.
<snip>
Thanks. That makes perfect sense.  We were just hoping to find one that
could be drop shipped off-the-shelf and work without creating a custom
image. I've been following up the two leads Heinz sent and we'll see
what we find - John