On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 04:35:41PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: > 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..
"Legacy" just means "inherited"; a system as I found it that I now have to make work more or less as-is. > > 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? "Write once, implement everywhere!" > 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. Does the appropriate JVM even exist? I guess one of the open-source JVM's should be buildable on a SPARC/Linux system but I haven't used any of those lately. I wonder if SRS will run on, say, IcedTea...? This sounds like the kind of thing that is going to eat into my one-week time line two hours at a time. > 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'.. Which problem do you mean? If you mean "getting hardware", well, while it is true that buying computers is easy, let's just say that local constraints put "running out to Best Buy" out of the question. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
