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Caligo - What's New

Caligo started life as "connect, authenticate, stream video and input." It has since grown into a complete cloud gaming client that runs on everything from a handheld to a Raspberry Pi to a VR headset. Here is what has landed since the initial blog announcement. Every Screen, Every

Caligo

I've had close to 10 years of history with Shadow. It all started with my own interest in streaming a computer over the network to play games and avoid turning my own house into a datacenter, and eventually turned into "why not do business with this company?

Shadow Ghost

Over the years, I’ve seen many users looking to repurpose their Shadow Ghost devices following Shadow's abandonment of the hardware (see also my Open Letter to Shadow post). These devices are now frequently found on eBay and similar sites for cheap. Over the past two weeks, I

Shadow Live OS (on top of Xubuntu 22.04.5 x86_64 Live USB)

Shadow Live OS (on top of Xubuntu 22.04.5 x86_64 Live USB)

This is an attempt to pre-install Shadow and ShadowUSB on a Live environment, this can be used to give second life to old hardware, without storage or just to trial Shadow PC under Linux without installing anything or just to ensure hardware compatibility. Requirements * The liveOS iso : https://nn.

Ghost v2.0 / Shadow for Rockchip Desktops - May Progress Note

Ghost v2.0 / Shadow for Rockchip Desktops - May Progress Note

It's been a long journey, which explains why I didn't take much time to post news. There's still a lot to do, but it's moving forward to properly enable Shadow on Rockchip devices. We are now in a more stable state than

Ghost v2.0 - February Progress Note

Ghost v2.0 - February Progress Note

Been busy with the changes in the packaging system to be able to build many targets and not only for Radxa products (install as a full featured firmware image or by installing APT repository). CI has been stabilised, nightly build to ease tinkering and rapid deployment on target devices (Not

Install Shadow Client on Raspberry Pi 5 (RPi5)

Install Shadow Client on Raspberry Pi 5 (RPi5)

Install Shadow Client Official wget http://repository.shadow.tech/prod/pool/main/s/shadow-prod/shadow-arm64.deb sudo apt install ./shadow-arm64.deb Install Debian Package sudo apt install libpulse0 libinput10 libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-randr0 libxcb-sync1 \ libatk1.0-0 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libcups2 libgtk-3-0 libgbm1

Open letter to SHADOW SAS

Open letter to SHADOW SAS

UPDATE (February 2026) : Without any answer from Shadow, decided to seriously reverse the Ghost and run modern linux distribution on it, you can find details here : https://shadow-codex.com/shadow-ghost/ Shadow Ghost is an amazing product made by Shadow and is due to be abandoned by the end

Shadow Linux Known Issues & Workarounds

Shadow Linux Known Issues & Workarounds

This is a list of known issues & workaround of the Shadow Linux x86_64 application you may encounter. * Touchpad gesture not working (2 fingers scrolling) with local Linux user in "input" group (LIBINPUT) * Difficulties to use Shadow hotkeys with local Linux user in "input" group

Ghost v2.0 - Rockchip Edition

Ghost v2.0 - Rockchip Edition

Embedded and Shadow has been one of the exciting part I've worked for several years (playing with Shadow components since 2017) as side projects in my batcave, I was excited by the fact I could build custom Shadow fanless client devices, at the cost of less than 15W

Configure your game correctly / Why is full-low bad on Shadow ?!

Configure your game correctly / Why is full-low bad on Shadow ?!

In order to properly configure your game on Shadow, you must use 100% of the Nvidia GPU and reduce as much as possible what consumes the CPU, a GPU that is bored or calculates too simple operations will saturate the CPU and require more work or will generate what is