SunRay 3, use as Thin Client? Feasible or pointless?
by Soadyheid from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6K5P5)
Iive posted this in hardware but itis mainly a software solution Iim looking for. Please move as appropriate.
Hi, I volunteer at a charity which refurbishes and repurposes old computer kit before donating it to charities at home and abroad for use by school kids who wouldnit otherwise be able to access remote education facilities.
Weive had a donation of inever been usedi SunRay 3 clients which, if it were possible, would be ideal to set up multiple clients run from a laptop iserveri. Iim thinking remote display, keyboard and mouse with user accounts on the server.
Iive previously played with Sun Xterminals (microSparc processor) using a program called SLXT 0.7a way back in 2001 which did the job back then.
What Iive found out so fari
The SunRay 3 has a Mips RMI Alchemy Au1550 processor, production was discontinued in 2014.
Needed Oracleis SRSS (SunRay Software Server) software which is/was proprietary, though free. A $100.00 licence per client was required.
The last version was 5.4.5 which requires a iMy Oracle Supporti account. Iive managed to download version 4.2. It runs on SuSE (SLES 10) or Red Hat RHEL AS 5)
Looking at Admin PDFs I think itis far more complicated than is needed. The install scripts need tweaking; e.g. for i printi read iechoi being the easiest. They just get more complicated! Iim hardware not software!
Also, Iim using Fedora 37 as the host OS instead of Red Hat which further complicates matters.
Other isolutionsi:
jOpenRay (also kOpenRay). Java based with the code released in 2010. Only works with VNC (Virtual Network Computing) or RFB (Remote Frame Buffer_ Display, written for SunRay 2 devices, probably doesnit work with SunRay 3. Software discontinued in 2014 along with the hardware. Problems as Apache Ant needs to be built and installed. Aaaarrgghh!
LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project)
Nearly ideal but uses up to 10 clients with i3-6100 processors and 4Gb Ram. No Mips alternative.
Has anybody worked on anything like this using SunRay 3s or is it a pointless task?
If we could get somewhere, deploying Internet in a Box would also be worthwhile.
Thanks for reading this far without falling asleep!
Play Bonny!
:hattip:
Hi, I volunteer at a charity which refurbishes and repurposes old computer kit before donating it to charities at home and abroad for use by school kids who wouldnit otherwise be able to access remote education facilities.
Weive had a donation of inever been usedi SunRay 3 clients which, if it were possible, would be ideal to set up multiple clients run from a laptop iserveri. Iim thinking remote display, keyboard and mouse with user accounts on the server.
Iive previously played with Sun Xterminals (microSparc processor) using a program called SLXT 0.7a way back in 2001 which did the job back then.
What Iive found out so fari
The SunRay 3 has a Mips RMI Alchemy Au1550 processor, production was discontinued in 2014.
Needed Oracleis SRSS (SunRay Software Server) software which is/was proprietary, though free. A $100.00 licence per client was required.
The last version was 5.4.5 which requires a iMy Oracle Supporti account. Iive managed to download version 4.2. It runs on SuSE (SLES 10) or Red Hat RHEL AS 5)
Looking at Admin PDFs I think itis far more complicated than is needed. The install scripts need tweaking; e.g. for i printi read iechoi being the easiest. They just get more complicated! Iim hardware not software!
Also, Iim using Fedora 37 as the host OS instead of Red Hat which further complicates matters.
Other isolutionsi:
jOpenRay (also kOpenRay). Java based with the code released in 2010. Only works with VNC (Virtual Network Computing) or RFB (Remote Frame Buffer_ Display, written for SunRay 2 devices, probably doesnit work with SunRay 3. Software discontinued in 2014 along with the hardware. Problems as Apache Ant needs to be built and installed. Aaaarrgghh!
LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project)
Nearly ideal but uses up to 10 clients with i3-6100 processors and 4Gb Ram. No Mips alternative.
Has anybody worked on anything like this using SunRay 3s or is it a pointless task?
If we could get somewhere, deploying Internet in a Box would also be worthwhile.
Thanks for reading this far without falling asleep!
Play Bonny!
:hattip: