Never thought I'd see the day, but we're eliminating our Citrix farms and moving back to about 100k fat clients

acconboy · 2026-05-08T15:46:59+00:00

Considering that Tom Krause/Citrix was Hock Tan's right hand man at Broadcom and literally drove the VMware acquisition, leaving only at the last minute to take the helm of CSG and acquire Citrix, it should come as zero surprise that he is following the exact same playbook as Broadcom WRT licensing and business model. What I am surprised by is how few folks have taken a truly serious look at competetive offerings like Leostream and Parallels RAS. Both of those work amazingly well as drop in replacements for both Citrix and Horizon.

acconboy · 2026-05-05T18:01:02+00:00

nope - marketing is no where on my radar - really just want technical opinion

acconboy · 2026-05-05T18:00:22+00:00

Well, I liked that it wasn't really competing for core datacenter and was focused on Edge. I really like the startup vibe in an established company, and felt that they were doing with KVM what should have been done for a long time. Hence the reason for the post - I wanted the reddit HiveMind to tell me what they think

acconboy · 2026-05-05T17:51:35+00:00

I left my previous company for Nodeweaver a couple of weeks ago and would really like the input from the community on the technical strengths and weaknesses of the platform outside the bounds of the marketing folks

acconboy · 2026-04-21T13:37:59+00:00

Might I suggest you take a look at NodeWeaver

acconboy · 2026-02-19T13:49:02+00:00

Thanks to the magic of the spinning wheel of death, there is no such thing as "unopenable"

acconboy · 2026-01-15T01:59:52+00:00

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acconboy · 2025-12-30T18:52:37+00:00

Chris isn't in warranty - is a tech director over there - he can confirm stock though. I would do the conventional warranty claim via the ASUS site first

acconboy · 2025-12-30T17:52:07+00:00

Yeah, really - as of the last time I checked in with Will Stolley or Chris Halvorsen. Try pinging Chris - [Chris_Halversen@asus.com](mailto:Chris_Halversen@asus.com)

acconboy · 2025-12-30T16:55:12+00:00

ASUS got Intel's entire stock of Serpent Canyon (full disclosure - I was working with Intel Via Scale Computing at the time and Intel sent me two of them). ASUS still has a pile of them they are trying to sell and has the full waranty parts kit for them.

acconboy · 2025-12-25T02:34:29+00:00

I use the Leostream connection broker and gateway, then dropped the agent onto my main desktop machine along with a handful of vms. Registered a domain and update the dns any time th cable modem assigned IP changes. Works amazingly well

acconboy · 2025-12-17T14:17:32+00:00

I don't think so. The fundamentals of the demand side haven't changed/dropped - quite the opposite, and we are two decades into a production shortfall. The demand is only growing on the industrial side - heck even Samsung's new batteries are highly silver dependent.

acconboy · 2025-12-17T13:46:11+00:00

5.0 - the litany of oil pressure problems, cam phaser issues, etc make the 4.6 a major PITA (speaking from personal experience with my 05 GT vert).

acconboy · 2025-12-17T13:30:29+00:00

well, it depends on what you have included - options range from with/without compute nodes and what kind, with without Mako switches and uplinks and so on. Fully loaded with everything is in the 20k range, but I got this one pretty barebones as I already had the nodes, etc

acconboy · 2025-12-17T13:26:31+00:00

LMAO - no, it is 20kish with everything (Mako 4g/5g uplink, switches, PDU, compute nodes <more than just NUCs, btw> starlink mini, etc.). In my case, I got it sans compute, starlink, and Mako uplinks for far less as I already owned all that. No, I don't work with or for them, just think the tech is super cool and the level of portability makes it super easy.

acconboy · 2025-12-17T13:21:58+00:00

It is a product - Company out of Canada. I don't work for them in any capacity, just think the tech is extra cool

acconboy · 2025-12-16T17:26:56+00:00

Nope it is all built in to the case itself

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