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Phoenix666 writes:

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.

Original Submission

1. "Phoenix666" - https://soylentnews.org/~Phoenix666/
2. "Citrix Receiver" - https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2014/03/17/raspberry-pi-xendesktop-pt-3-download-receiver-here/
3. "blogged last Friday" - https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2015/12/10/citrix-raspberry-pi2-thinlinx-high-res-graphics-client-for-50
4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=11115

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