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

[Philipp Huebner]

Hi,

On 22.07.2010 16:52, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> Hello, all.  We have two clients interested in using thin clients to
> access X2Go Server.  This is not an area of expertise for me.  I do see
> the documentation on creating an image for a thin client with X2Go as
> the display manager.
> 
> However, does anyone know of any thin clients that will run relatively
> "off-the-shelf" with X2Go either by using the firefox plugin or a simple
> installation of the standard X2Go client? Thanks - John

I collected some experience with thin clients from HP. The image is a
stripped down Debian where all access to command line has been blocked
and the dpkg binary manually deleted.

It's not hard to modify the system, just boot Linux from either PXE or USB.

They have Firefox installed, so you should be able to use the X2go
firefox plugin.

Extract /usr/bin/dpkg from the dpkg package and copy it in, and you're
able to install packages. This way you should also be able to include
the x2goclient.

I preferred to have real PXE thinclients and set up a chroot on a
Skolelinux Terminalserver: http://blog.debalance.de/?p=125


Regards,
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