On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Wim Coekaerts <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > aside from the obvious issue with colormask (WIP) and yes it's clearly a big > deal that is going to be addressed - what else is there that you'd want to > see?
Hi Wim, It's been a problem for a while now, which we were able to work around it by using the older flash version, but now sites are requiring flash 10, its starting to be noticed by our users. > > Given that we have Oracle Enterprise Linux (which btw is a -free- download > and -free- use - it doesn't require support subscriptions if you don't want > support nor does it require support subscriptions to just download) of > course we are going to make sure that that's fully supported and on par with > Solaris and make it easy to install/package etc... We've been using Sun Ray on Ubuntu for 3-4 years, and Sun Ray on Solaris for twice as long. Ubuntu provides a great desktop experience and is on the cutting / bleeding edge with software. Solaris is stable but sometimes lacks the latest versions and features. We use OEL for our JDE web servers, but I havn't really evaluated it for Sun Ray desktop use. > > I have seen a number of folks running ubuntu but that by itself is quite a > bit different in terms of packaging and quite frankly work/effort but I > would like to understand what in particular attracts folks to using ubuntu > for sun rays. is there anything that we are missing in OEL in particular, > what is it that you are looking for that's not there ? Alien handles the package conversion from rpm to deb fairly well. Packaging for Ubuntu shouldn't really be too much trouble for someone moderately skilled with packaging. As others have mentioned, the main issues with Ubuntu support is the portability of the scripts SRSS uses. That and the issues with the latest versions of GDM not working. > > also re ubuntu : there really are 2 ways to look at it, one is to use VDI > and run ubuntu desktops with oracle vdi the other is the standard sun ray > server install directly on ubuntu. first one is there today , second one is > just, as I said, a lot different than supporting rhel or oel and you can do > if you hack your stuff together today. > I havn't played with VDI much, but our 'hacked' Sun Ray on Ubuntu environment works well for our entire company, and supports 50+ users per server on minimal hardware. > virtualizing - is anyone running sun ray server virtualized ? would it help > if we made full images available for download (would be for Oracle VM - btw > also free download and use) that contained OEL and Sun Ray Server > pre-installed and preconfigured for the standard setup ? > I've only used virtualisation for testing Sun Ray, however I will be investigation using in production in future. As we run full Linux desktop environments, and not VDI I don't think virtual images would be any benefit to us. I think it would be great to see official Ubuntu support for Sun Ray. I'd also like to see a Linux release of the Sun Ray soft client. We really try to avoid running Windows wherever we can. Thanks again for soliciting our feedback. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
