On May 6, 2010, at 4:58 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.
Understood, fangs retracted.
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!"
ROFL!!
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.
Ooooh. Umm, yes. Good point.
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.
Yes but...if my job or professional reputation were at stake, I'd
go shell out the fifteen bucks myself, bring up the system, and claim
to have found it in the closet.
Unless those local constraints involve security issues (military,
etc)...in that case, well crap...you're screwed...and I'll hoist a
beer and send you good thoughts. ;)
It's really beginning to sound like putting together a quick PAM
module there is probably your best bet.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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