Hi, I've been reading a bit about various thin-client solutions, and was playing/testing SunRay recently with good success (some old SunRay 100 thin clients from the spare parts depot, from a deployment attempt a few years ago?)
After a bit of other reading, I was curious if there has ever existed a "software implementation" of sunray *client* which runs on other hardware. Google searches indicated that "SoftRay" was a topic in the media which Sun was considering as a way to make SunRay used by wider range of folks, which I "think" might have been closer to what I am wondering about. But I cannot find anything beyond the "early concept floating idea in the press" ie, there are a variety of (linux based) Live-CD's that you can use to boot up an old X86 PC hardware machine (laptop, desktop, whatever) - and it simply gets a very minimal local OS running from LiveCD, and then lets you connect to variety of "typical" local thin-client server resources (RDP-WinTermServer / CitrixMetaframe / VNC / X-Desktop-Sessions / Tarantella / etc). Clearly Sunray clients are using "some kind of thin client communication protocol" (google search hits suggest that it is "more like VNC than X" ?) - so I'm simply curious, is there anything remotely like this which exists ? I suspect that I would be able to use the "ThinClient LiveCD" as-is presently, and merely use X_Based connectivity from the "PC Thin Client" to connect to a (Linux based) Sunray server .. as a way to migrate old desktops to "Sunray Enviroment" (Albeit not really sunray, rather thin client). However, I suspect performance will be nicer if "Softray" were an option .. so I thought I'd ask, just in case such a thing does exist, albeit in a non-obvious location / manner. Many thanks, --Tim Chipman _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
