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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday December 15 2015, @09:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the holy-cheap-batman dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Urlax on Tuesday December 15 2015, @06:40PM

    by Urlax (3027) on Tuesday December 15 2015, @06:40PM (#276752)

    i really hope that this will inspire some monitor maker to include room for raspberry pi compute module.

    you could switch the monitors USB hub between the PC and the OTG port of the PI: Instant KVM.

    since the PI2's ethernet port is usb-to-ethernet anyway, you could hook it to the network using an external adapter and have a thin client INSIDE the monitor.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday December 15 2015, @07:36PM

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday December 15 2015, @07:36PM (#276769) Journal

    On the other hand, the pie is so small that it can hang from the HDMI cable, get power from the USB port, and be totally invisible behind the TV.

    IMHO, the last thing we need is another expensive option in a TV for something as fleeting as some particular version of a Raspberry Pi. You won't be able to buy any of the current Pi models in 3 years.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @07:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @07:59PM (#276777)
    Introduction [elinux.org]

    With recent embedded processors becoming mainstream and powerful enough for general-purpose computing, the Embedded Open Modular Architecture is an initiative to create robust, reliable and interoperable hardware standards for mass-volume systems based around embedded processors, where average users can interchange system modules (containing processor, RAM and storage), even several times a day, without risk of damage, needing any technical knowledge or requiring a technician to assist them.

    Products based on EOMA standards should, when sold, be so simple that any salesman can honestly say "Just plug it in: it will work", and where anyone from a small child to an elderly person may be confident in the day-to-day installation, removal and use of EOMA modules in the Electronic Appliances that they own. By complete contrast to existing Industry Standards, there does not exist even a single published open standard which can claim that it is easy for the general public to work with. To explain this puzzling statement further: all other standards require either special technical knowledge, special technical skills, special handling of the device so as not to damage it, and often tools are required. EOMA Standards are designed to require none of these things.

    The first initiative is to re-use the old PCMCIA form-factor, in a similar way to Conditional Access Modules [wikipedia.org]. Below, various alternative interfaces are analysed, and thus explain, given the requirements, why PCMCIA was chosen as the first preferred modular format, despite the greatly-reduced pin-count (only 68 pins).