[X2Go-Dev] SD-Card Image for Rasberry Pi

[Stefan Baur]

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Am 03.11.2015 um 12:27 schrieb Mike Gabriel:
> Hi Stefan (Baur), hi all,
> 
> @Stefan: on an event in Frankfurt, you had X2Go Client as thin
> client running on a Rasberry Pi.

That was a standard Raspbian image with an added X2Go repo - I think
Mike#2 hosts that.


> How much effort would it be to make such image available for the
> public?

I would suggest providing a step-by-step install instruction like we
have for the regular, x86/x64-based client, instead.
Providing an image is almost like shipping a binary blob, and the
SDcard is an 8 GB model, I think. Even compressed, that wastes a lot
of server space.

Also, the startup sequence I used was a bit hackish - X is running as
root and starts up xmessage as a primitive menu, with one option then
starting X2GoClient with the command line parameters for TCE mode.

So it's not recommended for production use.

Also, I would really recommend using a second-generation Raspi for
performance reasons.


> @all: does anyone of you have Rasberry Pis running a minimal X2Go
> (Thin) Client system and are you willing to share (a) the
> installation procedure or (b) the SD Card image?

Karl-Heinz Hellmann and Franz Lückl operate "niuco", a company that
specializes in Raspberry-Pi-based ThinClients.  They actually donated
the Raspi you saw to the X2Go Project (thanks again for that!).

I CC'ed them both, let's see what they have to add.

Kind Regards,
Stefan

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