Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote:

> Am Freitag, den 12.05.2006, 22:12 +0200 schrieb Pål Arne Hoff:
>> I'm pretty sure you won't be able to use Sunrays with LTSP. They use 
>> proprietary technology to send video signals from the server. The 
>> technician said the box was essentially just a network card and a video 
>> output card, and the actual image was created by Sun's terminal server 
>> software on the server and sent through the network over a proprietary 
>> protocol that was more efficient than X. They also installed their own 
>> hacked version of gdm on the server.
> 
> The trick is to run their Sun software, which allows them to work
> alongside any LTSP clients you might have connected.
> 
> A caveat: You need to use either _their_ gdm or patch a so-called "wdm",
> which looks like a pimped-up xdm, so that SunRay clients are supported.
> 
> At that point, the login screen on both SunRay and LTSP terminals looks
> identical, and they work very much the same from the user point of view.

If they really are "just a network card and a video output card",
they probably do not support things like local devices - maybe not
even sound... In which case, it does not make sense for me to buy them:
I want *more* local device support than LTSP gives me, not less...

When will somebody make a 1600x1200 DVI thin client?

-- 
Leonid Dubinsky



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