On 08/18/2011 11:42 AM, Jörg Barfurth wrote:
Rodney Sparapani schrieb:
Kaya Saman wrote:
Hi Kaya:
Fedora will definitely not work (we tried). However, you should
check out Oracle Linux 6.1. It's not as bleeding edge as Fedora,
but it is more modern than RHEL 5.7.
Don't. See below.
I am guessing that SRSS will need to be updated and modified
slightly in order to cope with the newer GDM in order to get things
going..... :-(
First GDM will need to be modified to support multiple 'seats' again.
There are patches available in the GDM project, but they have not been
accepted into the main version by the (Red Hat) maintainer yet.
AFAIK no Linux distro currently ships GDM (>= 2.22) with these
patches. Solaris 11 Express has them.
SRSS has some modifications to work with the patched GDM, but needs
additional work to get this fully ready on any platform.
This modification however, may or may not happen depending on what
Oracle decide for their own Linux variant; but, if generic
compatibility wants be achieved this seems to be the needed path to
take!
I can't comment on Oracle's plans for SRSS on OEL, but you may have
noticed that Oracle VDI just added OEL (5.6) as a supported platform
in its latest release.
I obviously can't say whether and when other Linux distributions will
pick up multi-seat patches for GDM (and ConsoleKit, but Red Hat
apparently is moving away from ConsoleKit again), so you may have to
build your own patched version of GDM as one prerequisite for
installing SRSS for some time to come.
I definitely need to check out Oracle Linux anyway so I may build a
VM of both Solaris 11 and OL6.1 as learning both is going be
incredibly helpful.
We haven't gotten to the stage of installing on Oracle Linux 6.1
yet. But, Oracle support has assured us that it does work.
They should not have. No released version of SRSS is supported on OEL
6.x - and afaik they won't work at all. SRSS 5.2 is supported on OEL
5.6 only.
- Jörg
So basically forget Linux for the moment as the provided GDM has become
incompatible is the final verdict!!!
That's ok :-)
Actually before the Oracle takeover there was this really cool video on
the Sun Microsystems site about Desktop VDI which talked about Sun Rays
and the Secure Global Desktop software in which Linux/UNIX apps could be
run remotely from backend application servers.
I think I'd need to take a close look at this as I never had enough
resources to play around with that before.
Just additionally; I know Oracle took the video off the site after they
gained 'legal' power, but is it available somewhere in an archive or on
a another site? I really enjoyed that and a while back contacted Oracle
about it in which they gave absolutely no response what so ever about
it. - I'm just wondering if anyone here would know of where it can be
viewed or downloaded from????
Thanks,
Kaya
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