SunRay Server Software v3.0 and Ubuntu?

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Last time I looked Sunray Server Software was only available for Intel
Linux or Solaris.

An x86 alternative that scales because you run the current X server on
each desktop is lessdisks-xterminal.  (An AMD Geode has enough 2D
acceleration for X and this takes the load of the GUI off your x86
box.)

We have a large SunRay site and I like to have both X and its clients
on a single box.  For now I have everything on Solaris as we have
SPARC.

SPARC hardware is reliable and very efficient and scalable so I would
be very interested if Sun would include .deb for sparc-linux in SRSS as
they now have commercial support offerings for Ubuntu Linux on
UltraSPARC T1.

As we grow our farm admin grows which would be less with T2000s as we
would have less nodes.  The lessdisks-xterminal is another growth path
currently being considered as I have found Linux very easy to maintain.

As SRSS offerings are Solaris Intel, Solaris Sparc and Linux Intel
porting to Ubuntu (and Debian) sparc targets should not be that hard.

This would need to be available for unstable branches as I have found
that we need bleeding edge openoffice, mozilla and other apps just to
keep up.


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