Title: Ah, the Raspberry Pi 3. So much love. So much power ... So turn it into a Windows thin client Author: Andrew Orlowski Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:34:31 -0500 Link:
NComputing packages up ARM PC into RX300 box
Using the Raspberry Pi 3 as a Windows thin client is not a new idea[1], but NComputing has wrapped it all up in a nice package for its target markets of schools and verticals.?
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Produced by the same person who {cough}designed{cough} the infamous E-Machi nes, so good luck with that.
-- W J G
There are a number of Pi-based solutions in this space, both free and commercial.
-- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]
I'd look into them, but I don't need a Win Thin Client myself.
I did just set up a little Raspi with Raspbian (Wheezy I think) and Leafnode, and it makes a nice little news spool. Amazing i was previously using much more serious hardware to do the same thing. That computer kicked the bucket last night (sniff sniff) so I hooked up the Raspberry and was surprised by just how well it performed the same tasks, at a fraction of the power draw.
This little boxes are so much fun.
For quite a while mine was running leafnode, yate (SIP PBX), outgoing mail, DNS and NTP for my network and was idling most of the time, then I moved everything onto my router or jails on my file server making it redundant.
-- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
How did you handle outgoing mail? Like postfix collecting a mail spool from local boxes and batching them over SMTP to your ISP, or something like that?
Just exim listening for connections from internal machines and pushing the mail to my ISP (at one stage it was sending mail directly but these days that tends to get blocked). Doing it this way means I don't have to reconfigure everything when I change ISPs.
-- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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