On May 6, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Michael Jinks wrote:
I'm pretty sure the answer to this is "ha ha ha ha ha" but I have to
ask...
I have a legacy system running Sun Ray on an UltraSPARC server (Fire
V220, FWIW).
Not quite certain of how a V220 is "legacy", but..
Due to time constraints and other issues I don't have the
option of replacing that machine, but I need to have a modernized Sun
Ray setup deployed in about a week. Our target setup requires the
pam_exec module, which exists in Linux but not in Solaris, which means
I'm looking at Sun Ray on RHEL.
After a quick Google search it looks like there are projects to build
Fedora for SPARC, but I'm betting that the Sun Ray binaries aren't
available for that processor/OS combo. Any chance I might get lucky?
Well, if I'm not too much mistaken, nearly all of SRSS is written
in Java, isn't it? The SRSS distributions for Solaris/SPARC and
Solaris/x86 are the same. This suggests to me that, with some
hacking to get around filesystem layout crap, it should be able to be
made to run under Linux on SPARC with an appropriate JVM. But then I
haven't thought about the X server itself, hmm.
That said, however, I did a smallish (three desktops) Linux-based
Sun Ray deployment just last week on a "server class" machine (as
much as an x86 box can be "server grade") that I picked up from a
liquidator for fifteen bucks. And that was even running under VMware
ESXi. This is not a difficult problem to solve, man. I'm just sayin'..
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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