[ale] Sun Ray 1 thin client..

[David Brooks]

Actually, I just read up on them a little more.

Basically, the Sun Rays need a Solaris Server running the "Corona"
software to operate.  It's not an X terminal, per se.  To quote Pete
from the sparclinux list at rutgers.edu:

"Naturally, I considered [porting Corona to Linux],
but rejected. Suppose you have a Linux on Corona - it would suck
rocks. With 4MB onboard it makes for no X server, and even if
it did, Sun Ray would outperform it." 

Basically the unit has 4MB of onboard memory, and this includes video
memory, which supports 1280x1024x24 bit graphics.  Do the math and you
dont have much left for anything else.  If someone could manage to port
just the server to run on a Linux machine, though, it would be a worthy
cause.  It would allow consumers to buy the thin clients and not Sun's
proprietary server software, and make it all work using an open
protocol.

Just some rantings.  I've already returned the thin client to the shelf,
seeing how its not going to be any practical use any time soon. ;)

-Dave


On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 17:23, Fulton Green wrote:
> IIRC, the kernel has a few options specifically geared for diskless
> operation. I don't know what they are offhand. I'd be curious as to how it
> handles the /tmp and swap partitions. Or maybe it just lives without swap
> and uses a ramdisk partition for /tmp. I'm also assuming that this is
> different from the X displays that were "popular" back in the early 1990s.
> 
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:20:29PM -0500, David Brooks wrote:
> > I borrowed a Sun Ray 1 applicane from the office today (basically a thin
> > client - mounts its filesystem over the network).  Apparently, a Solaris
> > server running some software takes care of this, and I was curious if
> > this could be duplicated on a Linux machine (or if any of you have tried
> > anything similar).  Any ideas?
> 
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