Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-17 Thread Paolo Marcheschi
Hi that' s very interesting project, and I've seen some demo on YouTube very promising, But I do not understand well if it is a better VNC using advanced 2D rendering . Or it can be used also as a multiple virtual desktop solution. I mean I need a kvm machine for every client , or can be used

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-16 Thread Jonathan Adams
We have about 50 SunRays throughout our group, relying on the Smart Cards to move/lock the session (we're a Laboratory, and have people moving station all the time) with this news, we'll have to think long term about replacing them with other thin-clients, but I cannot find anything equivalent

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-16 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-07-16 11:05, Jonathan Adams wrote: Any suggestions would be good, we don't even have to stick to Solaris, but I would prefer in the extreme not Windows. Anyone have experience with other thin-clients? I suggest you keep track of the SunRay-Users mailing list for a while; discussion of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-16 Thread Paolo Marcheschi
Hi I'm also interested in the possibility to find a good alternative to Sunray, so far I found interesting this article: http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/sunray2thinlinc/ that found an alternative in thinlinc from http://www.cendio.com/ I' m looking for a valid alternative that permits the use

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Paolo Marcheschi paolo.marches...@ftgm.itwrote: Hi I'm also interested in the possibility to find a good alternative to Sunray, so far I found interesting this article:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-16 Thread Jonathan Adams
anyone have any experience of these guys: https://www.igel.com/uk/ igel technology ... UD3 and UD5 have smart-cards built in, can't find prices, but there are demonstration units available. On 16 July 2013 13:54, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-16 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
On Jul 16, 2013, at 3:05 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: We have about 50 SunRays throughout our group, relying on the Smart Cards to move/lock the session (we're a Laboratory, and have people moving station all the time) with this news, we'll have to think long term about replacing them with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-16 Thread Ivar Janmaat
Hello, What about SPICE? It is an opensource protocol which works with KVM. KVM is already part of Illumos. so might it be interesting to port SPICE/Ovirt as well? Then we would have a display protocol with similar capabilities as the ALP protocol. Clients can than be made from smal ARM based

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-16 Thread Ivar Janmaat
Sometimes you think: why didn't anyone else think of this. Found someone who is already working on it: ;-) http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Spice+on+SmartOS Ivar Ivar Janmaat schreef: Hello, What about SPICE? It is an opensource protocol which works with KVM. KVM is already part of

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-15 Thread Paolo Marcheschi
Maybe Off Topic , but a great bad news. Oracle decides to discontinue the developing of the DVI infrastructure : http://www.zdnet.com/oracle-to-halt-development-of-sun-virtualization-technologies-718028/ Are there any viable alternatives? Using illumos based OS ? Paolo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-15 Thread Daniel Kjar
How sad. Well, I guess I will be replacing all my 2s with 3s as I am sure the ebay market for them will completely collapse. SRSS '5' (4.2?) works so well I haven't bothered patching/upgrading/even worrying about it for 2+ years now (yeah, and oracle killed that with their jackass support

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-15 Thread Ron Dawson
I heard about this earlier today. I'm not sure what this will do to our plans to replace our old Sun Ray 1 and 1Gs with the 3 Plus. Currently we're running off Solaris 10 on SPARC. I have not tried it yet with OI or Solaris 11. Daniel, were there any difficulties getting the SRSS 5 software

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-15 Thread Daniel Kjar
Not at all. I was surprised how easy it was and having the 'new' features in OI is great. The adjuncts used to be pretty disappointed with the look and feel of sol10 but when I updated them to OI they loved it (well, they stopped complaining). I even had Kiosks working fine but it messed up