[X2Go-Dev] Raspberry Pi as cheap Thin Client

[Javier Cacheiro Lopez]

Hi,

 From my point of view one of the advantadges of RPi is that you can 
easily deploy new OS images by just replacing the SD card with a 
different one (all v1 or v2 RPi have basically the same hardware ).

So in general I would just update one of the RPi nodes, check everything 
works and after that take the SD card to a standard computer and make a 
dd image of it. Then with that image you can update the SD cards of the 
rest of RPi.

If you can afford having some extra SD cards then you can just replace 
one SD card with the updated one.

In case you prefer network updates take into account that the network in 
the RPi is not especially fast because the NIC is only 100Mbits and the 
processor is also a limiting factor for the speed if using encrypted 
transfers (like scp).

Cheers,
Javier

On 09/01/14 09:32, kamerun at immerda.ch wrote:
> hello,
>
> yes we am testing to make x2go network with raspberry we have now in 
> testing phase.
> as raspberry has no pxe we load raspian and x2goglient it works now we 
> have only 2 clients but we will do it with 5 to 10 clients
>
> i would be very happy to have help, i am in kamerun and it is not easy 
> here to test
>
> our project has the motto
>
> computer everywhere for every body
>
> to solve it we use solar technology low power computer (alix board as 
> client, now raspberry) and low power server (dual core 20 watts) 
> monitor 12 watts all with 12 and 5 volts imputs
>
> assiciation linux friends limbe (cameroon)
>
> michel
>
>
> we are an open source  informatic school against digital gap between 
> north and south and digital gap in south between village and town
>
>
> http://sokolo.cronopios.org
>
>
>
>
>
> Zitat von Stefan Baur <newsgroups.mail2 at stefanbaur.de>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just stumbled over http://rpitc.blogspot.de/ - a project to turn 
>> Raspis into cheap thin clients.
>> They're including an X2Go client in their image, too.
>>
>> I'd be curious how these boxes perform under load - did anyone on 
>> this list try it out already?
>> If no, who owns a Raspi and is willing to give it a try?
>>
>> -Stefan
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