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The Raspberry Pi is now a threat to thin clients.
Citrix has been fooling around with the Pi as a desktop virtualisation (VDI) target for a while, even releasing a prototype Citrix Receiver for the little computers. That effort was in early 2014.
Citrix has since decided it was inefficient to put a lot of effort into creating a special version of Receiver for one device, so instead set to "working with the Pi Organization to ensure our existing Linux Receiver would work with their new Pi2 architecture and supported OS images."
The result of that effort, the company blogged last Friday, is that in "XenDesktop/XenApp 7.6 FP3 and the new HDX Thinwire compatibility codec, we ... had a codec that would perform efficiently on the Pi2 without the need for hardware accelerated plugins."
This thin client is wafer-thin.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Tuesday December 15 2015, @10:56AM
I'm hoping they took some time to actually make some improvements to their Linux receiver. It kind of sucked.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @11:51AM
But Windows! Business! Windows! CIO PHB Cloud Azure Technology going forward paradigm!
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday December 15 2015, @01:12PM
I'm sorry but that was a poor sales pitch: Not enough buzzwords.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday December 15 2015, @01:27PM
It sucks just as well on Pi as it ever did on Linux.
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(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Tuesday December 15 2015, @03:10PM
Nice.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by hogger on Tuesday December 15 2015, @03:22PM
I use it almost daily on 64bit Debian. I just installed the latest one (13.2.1) yesterday via their deb file. It installed and worked ok. What prompted me to get the latest version was an upgrade of my kernel to 4.x, and moving citrix apps across the screen was leaving trails. I'd never had that problem with my old 3.13.x kernel. The new receiver doesn't really seem much different, maybe slightly faster, the screen trails problem seems to be fixed. I don't have any qualms with the Linux receiver. It works just fine for me. I'm just happy I don't have to run windows when working from home.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Tuesday December 15 2015, @04:17PM
I used to use it, but dumped it when I got VPN access. It was a pain to install (at the time), especially in 64 bit, slow, but it was fairly reliable.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday December 16 2015, @06:47PM
Can't be much worse than the Windows one, can it? I have to use that thing on a daily basis, and just moving a window often takes 30-60 seconds to respond. I've had better results using VNC from a different continent...
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday December 16 2015, @08:15PM
Oh, it's better than that, but I would assume it's more bandwidth and latency based for problems of that sort.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday December 16 2015, @08:24PM
Yeah probably. Pretty sure the server is *right freakin downstairs* though. But since they can't even manage to allocate sufficient capacity of office chairs, it's likely they haven't allocated sufficient capacity on that server either :)