I still have sunrays in production at our labs. Very little to go wrong and a lot cheaper to replace when someone should chemicals on them ... But we recently "upgraded" the servers to centos, mainly so that we had a reliable desktop with versions of specific Linux centric software. We have wine, LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird and a modern (read from git) version of xfreerdp, new versions of windows related software from upstairs meant that I had to make it work with the technology or change everything to windows ...
If you know of a thin desktop that does smart card hot desking, for less power than a set of fairy lights please tell me :-) Jon On 20 Aug 2016 20:53, "Alexander Pyhalov" <a...@rsu.ru> wrote: > Gary Driggs писал 20.08.2016 22:44: > >> On Aug 20, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: >> >>> >>> If Sun had understood that it could provide a reliable and user friendly >>> Unix desktop, I am sure it >>> would be alive and kicking today. >>> >> >> Apple had a server hardware product for several years and still has a >> server OS. But if anyone won the Unix desktop war it's them. Tech >> alone does not make for a successful business. And Sun's attempts at >> making a viable desktop OS were never well executed. In the late 90s >> when the Sun Rays first came out my team built several desktop UI >> replacements for the horrible CDE that they clung to for far too long. >> But guess who ended up using them the most? The sysadmin team. The >> rest of the end users didn't give a shit -- they just needed access to >> the tools required to do their job. >> > > The SunRay and similar thin client are great. We had more than hundred of > them. They survived for > 10 years. > Good term for workstation. They are designed to achieve their goal - > provide controlled desktop environment > enough to do your task. Given that most work applications move to web, > Unix-like terminal is enough for > business. We still have them in our library. I know local banks still use > it as operator workspace. > There had several advantages: > you can reconfigure all N clients in one command, as you do it on > server, > they hardly die, > they are secure... > > One of my colleagues recently recreated similar terminal environment on > thinstation. This product also looked fine, > but SRSS looked much more production-ready :) > --- > System Administrator of Southern Federal University Computer Center > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
