[X2Go-Dev] X2Go module purposes

Stefan Baur X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de
Mon Jan 26 22:30:51 CET 2015


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Am 26.01.2015 um 22:27 schrieb Short, Kermit:

> The thin clients we are using are manufactured by a German company
> named IGEL.  They support NoMachine on their firmware, along with a
> wide variety of other non FOSS remote access protocols.  We are
> quite pleased with most aspects of the IGEL device, except for
> their lack of support for X2Go.
> 
> Fortunately, IGEL allows users to create a custom partition, in
> which they can load anything they desire (or at least can get
> working themselves).  Obviously, I'm using this feature to load the
> x2go client.  Their firmware is minimally based on Ubuntu LTS 14.04
> 32-bit.  While repositories exist for Ubuntu, the IGEL ecosystem
> doesn't support dpkg, apt-get, or any other packaging mechanism, so
> I have to hand roll any packages I deploy to their custom
> partition.  The nice thing about this platform is that once I get
> it working on one device, we can centrally deploy the x2goclient
> and custom partition to any other device in our environment.
> 
> I had it working reasonably well on an older version of firmware,
> but things have been upgraded steadily, and I'd like to rebuild for
> the current versions of IGEL firmware.

I see.  Quite an intereting use case.  Would you like to make your
documentation public, so other X2Go users may profit from it?
IGELs are, as far as I know, pretty common devices, but I didn't know
they could do that.

- -Stefan


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