Jason- I'm an equal opportunity distro-hater here.. :-D So far, Ubuntu (and Debian) have worked well for us, we just haven't used them as a client OS for the Sun Rays.
In your setup, what happens when you do an XDMCP session? Does it just run Xnest/Xephyr, or is it something completely different? I honestly don't know too much about XDMCP. Even less when you talk about it in conjunction with SRSS and/or Solaris. -Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Winningham" <[email protected]> To: "SunRay-Users mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2011 4:22:16 PM Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Serving Linux (TS-style) Desktops - Best Option? On May 4, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Jonathan C. Bailey wrote: > I REALLY don't like OEL (or RHEL, or really any RPM based distro) I think that's the first time I've heard anyone avoid a distro based on the package manager. :| I've had uniformly bad luck with ubuntu and integrating it into an enterprise environment. OK, my enterprise environment isn't all that modern (I'm still running NIS with lots of NFS and automounter), but ubuntu was a pain. CentOS, on the other hand, Just Works. It's reliable and stable, too. So, I'd suggest option #5: > 5) Bite my tongue and just run OEL I'm running vanilla SRSS on SPARC/Solaris, but at this point so many of my users are simply using options -> remote login to XDM over to a CentOS box I'll probably try and put together a kiosk config to let them choose which system (probably based on a course name instead of a system name) to log in to. -Jason ---------------------------------------- Jason Winningham Computer Systems Engineer College of Engineering The University of Alabama in Huntsville http://support.eng.uah.edu/ http://www.eng.uah.edu/~jdw _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
