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.
You could throw something together with Alpine Linux
I second this, Alpine is seriously tiny!
Have a look at thinStation
too bad there’s no rustdesk support
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.
“64-128mb ram” is hardly “low memory”!
For video it is. Unless you want your desktop to be in 128p
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.
Chrome is actually doing a lot of work to display modern webpages though. A thin client only needs to receive a video stream and send inputs to a server. That can be done with an extremely low memory footprint. The Steam Link only had 512MB of RAM and it actually ran a steam client (which contains embedded chromium) instead of acting as a pure thin client.
I wouldn’t be against something that needs 1gb or 4gb. Of course it’s different hardware class, but if it actually does a better job, it would be fine.
Although I suspect for a thin client, 512mb would be more than enough and adding more wouldn’t improve much of anything.
You can’t display things and run in a low memory footprint.
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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
Neat, never heard of that, this thread is a gold mine.
Porteus kiosk thin client might be an option.
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 A bit outdated, but should work fine.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.
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 !
- 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.
I don’t understand what this is but it looks awesome. It sounds like nixos.
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.
