I recently purchased an HP T640 Thin Client off ebay for a steal compared to the regular prices.

This thing has 8gb(soon to be 32gb), M.2 SATA 128GB drive(soon to be 512gb) and is powered by a Ryzen Embedded R1505G processor with Vega 3 graphics.

Anyone ever install Slackware on something like this?

I imagine there shouldn't be any "gotchas" but, there always seems to be.

This is the unit: https://support.hp.com/lv-en/product...ment/c06433828

I haven't installed Slackware to a device of that type, but I can't imagine that you'd encounter any issues. The specifications seem quite adequate.

I have a friend who is sysadmin for a medium-sized Linux network (approximately 250 users) in a thin client environment. He uses similar devices running Fedora as the clients for his users. (He uses RHEL for the server because of the support.)

I suggest you install -Current in a Ryzen machine to have kernel 5.x.

That is the plan.

"The HP ThinPro operating system is based on the standard Linux kernel. With wide support from the Linux community, businesses can continue to drive secure, high-performing, virtualized environments on HP Thin Clients" https://www.value-hub.ch/fileadmin/d...tingSystem.pdf

I assume that someone can put almost any modern distro on it. However these thin clients usually have some sort of gotcha's.

If you have described the device correctly, the only caveat is that this is pretty recent hardware, so it's possible ( but not necessarily so) that the bios might be uefi only (really a tiny non-issue in fact) or that the wifi/bluetooth driver support is poor or has a few hoops to jump through to get working right. So worst case scenario I can imagine, you use one usb port for a hub & plug in separate wifi and or bluetooth dongles. More likely linux will just work completely fine out of the box, especially since the hardware was designed with linux as a possible os.

This particular unit came with Windows 10 IoT. I installed Slackware 14.2 and then upgraded to -Current. There were some areas where it seemed to take forever for the install to continue, but now that everything is installed, it's pretty speedy.

It is UEFI, but it does support legacy booting. I had to disable all the secure boot stuff, but it boots up with UEFI ELilo with Slackware no problem.

It does not have a wifi-bluetooth module, but I have ordered one. They are cheap and if it works well, I'll use it rather than a dongle.

This unit has a lot of ports. 2 USB 3.1 Gen2 Type A ports, 2 USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type A ports, 2 USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type C ports, 2 USB 2 Type A Ports, VGA, headphone jack, network and 3 display port ports that all support 4k 60Hz output.

It does not use NVME m.2 drives, but it has a SATA m.2 drive. I've upgraded the 128GB unit to 480GB. Ram is only 8gb, but I have 32GB on the way. Dual Core/Four threads.

Slackware 14.2 installed ok and then upgraded to -Current. Install was weird. It took a while. There were some times where I thought it had locked up during the boot sequence or install procedure, but it just took some time to get through it. Once everything was up to date and installed, everything worked really well.

Just need my 32gb of ram. With only 8GB, and 2GB shared for the IGP, 6GB isn't much to play with.