On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote: > >> But, I'm kind of surprised that someone hasn't done a raspberry-pi >> type device that boots directly into x2go and comes out cheaper than a >> video card per seat. Haven't needed one badly enough to build it >> myself yet. > > It should be trivial to set up an actual RPi to do that. > > One of the options during installation is to boot into text mode instead of graphical mode. Once it’s booted, add the x2go startup commands in /etc/rc.local. > > Done, no? Not really. The beauty of the original K12LTSP respin was that just you did a normal fill-in-the-form install pretty much like any fedora/centos in a server with 2 NICs and you could plug in some diskless PCs and they came up working with applications ready to go. Compared to that, there's still a lot of do-it-yourself assembly required. I recall from the early K12LTSP mail list days that quite a few teachers were able to set up a classroom with very little admin knowledge. > Any dedicated hardware to do that will be considerably more expensive than an RPi. > > First, the RPi benefits from massive scale. They’ve moved millions of the things. Dedicated x2go boxes will sell units on the scale of Wyse terminals, and consequently be relatively expensive. > > Second, the RPi is set up as a nonprofit educational foundation. The last link or two in the chain does make a bit of money on it, but you aren’t paying for R&D or profit to the foundation. And, the last links in the chain can’t make a *lot* of money on RPis because they’re competing against the foundation itself, which sets a ceiling on how expensive a Pi can be through their Element14 relationship. Agreed on the hardware front, but couldn't this be a canned image you copy to an SD card with some way to edit the target IP address in place without needing to rebuild it? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com