The best alternative for light-weight sessions from Solaris was FreeNX, but I haven't found a good Solaris NX Client, still looking.
When I get enough time I think I will try to recompile it again on hipster, or at least try to streamline the thing to re-use the native drivers again ... I really had to kick the sh*t out of it to get it to compile last time (2011). Jon On 11 October 2013 23:40, Ivar Janmaat <ijanm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Totally agree! > I looked at Xspice as an alternatief to ALP but you need a 10 Gbps network > if people want to use youtube. > The Sun Ray is really light-weight for simple multimedia and even works > well over WAN connections. > > As for pulsaudio. Xspice also needs pulsaudio to be able to transfer audio > to the client. > Xspice is still in developement. > > Kind regards, > > Ivar > > Jonathan Adams schreef: > > SunRays aren't easily replaced. they're a very cheap, reliable and >> versatile system. >> >> SunRays all support high resolutions out of the box. They all support >> smart >> card technology to connect to the correct session. They are a true >> thin-client, a SunRay client uses less electricity than my set of LED >> fairy >> lights, that I hang in the office at Christmas. The protocol they use is >> exceptionally light-weight, possibly even better than RDP, orders of >> magnitude better than VNC. >> >> We've looked around for replacements to our system, but because we >> hot-desk >> (it's a laboratory, people walk about all day) most other clients just >> don't do what we need. We've taken to buying up other peoples SunRays >> when >> they sell them off. >> >> They're one of the greatest systems/protocols that Sun produced, but >> because the margin was small, their sales guys just weren't interested in >> pushing them, except in the 1000s, and because of this they didn't know >> what they did, in order to push them in the market ... and with no profit >> coming from the line, Oracle dropped the product. >> >> Just my 2cents. >> >> Jon >> >> >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@**openindiana.org<OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org> > http://openindiana.org/**mailman/listinfo/openindiana-**discuss<http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss> > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss