7 mo. ago • 96%

are there dedicated thin client linux distro, I mean moonlight, SPICE, waypipe, vnc, rdp, remmina, X.

Either pxe netboot or usb or installable. Immuttable or not. Ramfs. With a host selector or fully auto login ?

Ultra light 16 to 128mb storage 64-128mb ram. Or "full sized"

And lastly, something like that, but that would run on a proxmox host.

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You could throw something together with Alpine Linux

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- I second this, Alpine is seriously tiny!
  
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You can't display things and run in a low memory footprint. That's not how it works as you need a buffer.

What are you trying to do? You could build a custom image but that it likely harder than you need.

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- "64-128mb ram" is hardly "low memory"!
  
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  For video it is. Unless you want your desktop to be in 128p
  
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  Megabytes, a thousand of which make a gigabyte. Chrome in my machine right now is taking over one gigabyte of memory, that alone is using more than 8 times what OP wants the whole system to. It's definitely an ask for low memory, almost embedded levels of ram.
  
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- You can’t display things and run in a low memory footprint.
  
  Rule 2 - No misinformation
  
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Have a look at thinStation

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- too bad there's no rustdesk support
  
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I've been using crunchbang++ on a Dell wyse thin client laptop. It doesn't auto login or anything but seem to work fine I got it on woot for 60 buckd

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- Neat, never heard of that, this thread is a gold mine.
  
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Porteus kiosk thin client might be an option.

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I imagine you could find a lot of options. Just a quick google turned up ThinStation, which only needs 30-50MB if storage and 64MB+ of RAM. A bit outdated, but should work fine.

You could also make your own OS with LFS if you want to optimize it to the extreme.

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- Thanks that looks pretty good. Ihad searched and found nothing. The internet is full of folks who "just get X linux distro and write a bunch of scripts"
  
  It even supports Spice. Only thing missing is moonlight support !
  
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https://universal-blue.org/

Choose Fedora uCore

Merge Sunshine from the Bazzite project

Result: automated uCore + Sunshine image, always up to date and ready to flash on a thumbdrive.
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- I don't understand what this is but it looks awesome. It sounds like nixos.
  
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The only one I ever used was https://ltsp.org/ , but it's been years, so I have no idea how it's doing now. It was great for thin clients.

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