Not sure as a student if I'm valid to comment here or if I qualify but I use a Sun Ray 1 in my test lab at home coupled to a 40" widescreen HD TV..... ok so resolution is 1280x1024 no the full whack of 1900x1600 the TV can produce but still it does the trick and the Enterprise 420R server I have it linked to is fine for browsing basic web pages and sending email.
The system runs on SXCE build 116 and actually as a matter of fact even is wireless as I have 3 3Com wireless access points in a point-to-mutlipoint bridge over 802.11g network running WPA2 encryption. I can even play music back using Rhythmbox with no effort at all :-) The only place the Sun Ray lacks is video playback but then having 4x450MHz processors doesn't do any justice either. To see the picture: http://www.optiplex-networks.com/lab/lab.html All I know is that these make the coolest user systems and definitely something I will hook up over WAN for my family if I manage to make enough $$$ to buy a better server and a few Sun Ray 270 DTU's to run over IPsec VPN tunnels so that notebooks can also access the remote network too. Actually since the E420r along with a few Netra T105's were my first Sun's and the Ray my first glimpse into Solaris on a desktop I think that it has taught me so much and the fact that I would love to work somewhere that had these either for me to help admin or work on to build someone else's network to use these. Just need better video playback on them, perhaps even HD video one day but absolutely awsome devices. Why doesn't Sun go into the laptop market either??? If there's something that I'd really like is to get a Sun notebook!!! It's also a bit of a pity that Sun stopped doing multi processor desktops too otherwise that would have been cool also, to have dual or quad system busses rather then this dual or quad core nonsense all being fed by a single buss blah. Well just my perspective anyway, I hope I see many more of these things when I start work properly otherwise I duno life wouldn't be the same I think knowing that there are so many great things out there and possibilities but being stuck in a place that just doesn't see them.... could be worse though as a to be UNIX and Cisco engineer I could be put a pot full of Windows machines.... yuk!!!! Regards, Kaya -----Original Message----- From: Lars Tunkrans <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: SunRay-Users mailing list <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jul 21, 2009 11:40 pm Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] How long have Sun Rays been around? Kent Peacock wrote:? > On 07/21/09 13:20, Lars Tunkrans wrote:? >>? >> Seems like some sort of 10-year anniversary is inplace soon >> then ? !!!!!!? >>? >> Must be the only thin client architecture on the planet that has >> lasted for 10 years !? >> Why dont you guys dig some old first generation SunRays out of a >> closet somewhwere and make? >> a movie of a gen.1 sunray and the present sunray running VDI side >> by side >? > What do you mean "dig some old first generation Sun Rays (two words, > please) out of a closet". They're still in use all around Sun.? >? > Kent? >? >? Yes I know the 1G Sun Ray and the older model 102 Sun Ray is still in use. You are saying that the Sun Ray 102 was the first production model ?? ? I still think a demo movie should be made and I dont have a model 102.? Maybe I can find one at Sun :-)? ? //Lars? ? ? _______________________________________________? SunRay-Users mailing list? [email protected]? http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users?
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