CuBox as thin/fat client

[Giacomo Trovato]

Hi Asmo,

thank you for your answer.

I want to to use the PI in a small office, and set it on the rear of a
22" LCD: it's a good and economical setup.
But I have some problems as reported in my post, see below.
Do you have experienced this kind of issues?

I'm testing PI as thin client with Edubuntu 12.04 and LTSP-PNP.
There is a strange behavior: even if I have set Italian as default
language, the desktop is always in English. If I enter with the same
user on another thin client (not PI) the language is right (Italian).

Then, after login, there is an Ubuntu Crash message.
See here:
http://www.asilospangaro.it/temp/image2.png
http://www.asilospangaro.it/temp/image4.png

The graphic of LibreOffice and Firefox is quite strange.
See here:
http://www.asilospangaro.it/temp/image1.png
http://www.asilospangaro.it/temp/image3.png

Giacomo.

2013/2/15  <asmo.koskinen at arkki.info>:
>
>> has anyone tested CuBox (www.solid-run.com) as Edubuntu thin/fat client?
>
> I got CuBox, Raspberry Pi, too.
>
> You can't use them or any ARM-based client as a thin client, because there
> is no support for PXE. Similar as you can't use any WLAN-based client as a
> thin client. You need PXE support to boot any device as a thin client.
>
> LTSP is x86/PXE project, not for ARM for WLAN.
>
> Without PXE you need some minimal OS to load and then connect to
> LTSP-server. But to me that is LTSP anymore.
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/LTSPArm
>
> There are few projects for Raspberry Pi, none for CuBox. Both do not use PXE.
>
> 1 - http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php
> 2 - http://rpitc.blogspot.fi/
>
> Best use for Raspbery Pi and CuBox is headless server or multimedia server
> (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3274).
>
> ---
>
> But I did try CuBox as a LTSP-PNP server and Raspberry Pi as
> berryterminal. But I do not see any real use for that. Old PC hardware is
> good enough as a thin client.
>
> http://www.arkki.info/howto/RaspberryPi/Berryterminal.jpg
>
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=5603&p=200156&hilit=berryterminal#p200156
>
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=5603&p=200185&hilit=berryterminal#p200185
>
> Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.
>