Note: very experimental, constantly broken

1. install the base Raspbian system on a RaspberryPi from Raspbian Jessie; full install recommended
2. wget -q -O- https://github.com/nilx/RASP/raw/master/bootstrap.sh | sh (will take quite some time to install everything, and reboot when it's done)

You get:

• a working, minimal, LXDE-based desktop on Raspberry Pi, with a few performance/convenience tunings
• auto-login to user pi (sudoer, password:raspberry)
• access BB terminal from https://bba.bloomberg.com/ with Citrix client
• access work PC and generic PC from https://bbe.bloomberg.com/ with Citrix client

Useful as a second workstation for:

• business trips, on the hotel TV (bring your HDMI cable, keyboard and mouse)
• WFH without mixing work and home devices or in temporary locations
• disaster recovery

Tested on:

• RaspberryPi 2B, 3B

TODO:

• harden locale settings
• browser presets: no passwords
• bemp presets for wicd
• LXDE artwork
• unattended upgrades
• trim down unneeded packages

BUGS:

• BBA pop-ups steal the focus

LATER:

• hardware GPU acceleration: experimental and currently unstable (https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/another-new-raspbian-release/)
• dual-host+monitor (two raspi + synergy)

WONTFIX:

• Ericom RDP client (no armhf version, from Ericom customer service)
• xdmx dual host+monitor (xdmx unusable according to multiple web reports)
• native Chrome or Raspbian Chromium (no arm builds)
• Opera browser (no arm build)
• Midori browser (not enough HTML5 support for Ericom RDP)
• Chromium from http://ports.ubuntu.com/ (segfault, wily&xenial)
• rpi-update console feedback (requires chef version > 11.12)
• Slack client (no arm build, 3rd party clients unusable)
• Vidyo/NEXI web client (Linux unsupported)

Somehow usable on Firefox, but slower and more CPU-hungry than Citrix

Shortcuts:

• ALT+PAGE UP Switches between programs from left to right
• ALT+PAGE DOWN Switches between programs from right to left
• ALT+HOME Displays the Start menu
• CTRL+ALT+END Brings up the Windows Security dialog box
• ALT+DELETE Displays the Windows menu