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thinRoot is a buildroot (https://buildroot.org/) powered operating system environment to create lightweight user-defined kiosk systems as ThinClients (e.g. using intel NUC, RaspberryPi, ASUS Tinkerboard, etc.) to smoothly connect to server-based desktop environments using ThinLinc, RDP (xfreerdp/remmina), VNC, etc. or to create simply web-kiosk systems displaying a webpage fullscreen.

The installation of thinRoot is quite straight forward as it is delivered as a full PXE bootable system image that can be directly booted using a PXE+TFTP+DHCP environment:

As the thinRoot project is an open source based project everyone is invited to contribute to this project. So, if you are a talented developer and want to contribute to the success of thinRoot feel free to send over pull requests or report issues / enhancement requests. Please note, however, the licensing and contributing implications and accept that - in short - anything you contribute to this repository/project (especially source code) will be (re)licensed under the Apache 2.0 license (see CONTRIBUTING.md). In addition, please understand that we will only accept contributions (either source code or issues in the issue tracker) if these comply to our CODE OF CONDUCT.

Even for those that don't have the technical knowhow to help developing on thinRoot there are ways to support our development. Please consider sending us a donation to not only help us to compensate for expenses regarding thinRoot, but also to keep our general development motivation on a high level. So if you want to donate some money please feel free to send us money via PayPal. And if you are running a business which might integrate thinRoot in one of your products please contact us for a regular donation plan which could not only show that you do care about open source development, but also could secure your product by ensuring that development on thinRoot continues in future.

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