jumbo810/rdpkiosk

RDP Thin client and/or recovery toolkit(DEPRECATED! MOVED TO GITLAB)

RDPkiosk is a tiny Linux distribution which acts as RDP thin client and/or recovery toolkit.

• Licence: GPLv3+
• Image size: 42MB
• System requirements: 512MB of RAM and 686-compatible CPU
• Built with Buildroot http://buildroot.uclibc.org So it is very simple to rebuild the entire distro with my configs and init script. Look for rebiuld manual in 'Rebuild_howto' directory.
• The project was launched because of Thinstation's deprecation and inability just to build. Anyway the majority of thin clients need rdp only an can work using a simplier solution.
• You can start the 'kiosk' image with any bootloaders you know. Typical case is network (PXE, with pxelinux), but you can also start from flash-drive or HDD with syslinux, isolinux, grub(1|2) or any other bootloader.
• SSH server (dropbear) is up, user: root, password: ololo

Kiosk modes are set via kernel parameters.

• RDP client mode: rdesktop=192.168.0.2 startx=1 or xfreerdp=192.168.0.2 startx=1 depending on client you prefer to use an your server's IP address
• Desktop mode: startx=1
• Terminal mode needs no parameters

Packages included:

• Graphics: xfreerdp, rdesktop, xterm, fluxbox, xeyes(the greatest X application ever!!!!)
• Busybox-based userspace
• Filesystem utilities: ncdu and mdadm, suitable for recovery needs
• Browser: dillo
• HW tools: dmidecode, hwdata, lshw, pciutils
• Network: mtr, rsync, dropbear, p910nd
• bc

Test in QEMU before use: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel kiosk -append "rdesktop=192.168.0.2 startx=1" -m 512 $ qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel kiosk -append "xfreerdp=192.168.0.2 startx=1" -m 512 $ qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel kiosk -append "startx=1" -m 512

To force resolution(useful for CRT displays) add parameter: xrandr="--output default --mode 640x480"