[HOW-TO] Installing XBIAN directly on RASPBIAN IMG

[arie_papa]

(24th Dec, 2013 01:47 AM)mk01 Wrote:  do a how-to, compare to "Installing XBIAN directly on RASPBIAN IMG" - underline that the point / target is ~ same. explain how xbmc/lxde is switching between (no reboots, no hacking) + small elaboration about - as users need in howtos.

can you prepare something like this ? in a week / two / three to put on wiki ?

Well my target was always, "have a remote desktop" while not spoiling the local RPi Xbian mediaplayer for my wife and kid.

Just be aware of the power of the RPI, it is impossible to use a remote desktop connection while using it as a mediaplayer localy. But, because it is my second RPi, stationed at the bedroom, I hope I can use it during the day as a remote desktop (lxde) computer, and play some nice music, video's during bedtime. Today I've got it finally up and running (the freenx part), so I'm not sure how stable it is. Another problem is that (as far as I know) the official mirrors of nxserver from nomachine are down because they have upgraded to V4. I believe I have found an official fedora source mirror a few months ago, so I really have to go back all the steps to reproduce. The latest problem, Nomachine only made V4 available for free downloads, where I'm using V3.5 as the viewer. There is an open client available, but I didn't test yet.

I'm willing to write a wiki, but as said before, I'm sure there are some problems to reproduce / in the future, which I'm not aware of.