[OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

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On Jul 16, 2013, at 3:05 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote:

> We have about 50 SunRays throughout our group, relying on the Smart Cards
> to move/lock the session (we're a Laboratory, and have people moving
> station all the time)
> 
> with this news, we'll have to think long term about replacing them with
> other thin-clients, but I cannot find anything equivalent ...
> 
> It could just be me overlooking something, but we want a thin-client, not a
> network client ...
> 
> Any suggestions would be good, we don't even have to stick to Solaris, but
> I would prefer in the extreme not Windows. Anyone have experience with
> other thin-clients?
> 
> Jon
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Take a look at the Linux Terminal Server Project:

http://www.ltsp.org

We've been using it for around twelve years.  Very nice.  Mature.  The mailing list used to be very helpful.  I haven't been on it for a long time, so I don't know how it is now.  It's reached the point where it just works.  You can get commercial support if you want that.

You might also be able to get it to run on OpenIndiana or Solaris, if you wanted to put some work into it; but I think your users would have a better user experience with Linux.  Linux desktops are a lot more modern and friendly than OI's.

You can also use either small thin client hardware, or old repurposed PC's.  We have a mixture of both here.  They've been really great for us; and a whole lot of other people have had nice experiences with it, too.

HTH

Peter, hieromonk