[OpenIndiana-discuss] pulseaudio

[Gary Gendel]

Jon,

Did you get the NX server running on Solaris/OpenIndiana?  I was almost 
successful but couldn't get all the components compiled and running.

Gary

On 10/14/2013 05:11 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> The best alternative for light-weight sessions from Solaris was FreeNX, but
> I haven't found a good Solaris NX Client, still looking.
>
> When I get enough time I think I will try to recompile it again on hipster,
> or at least try to streamline the thing to re-use the native drivers again
> ... I really had to kick the sh*t out of it to get it to compile last time
> (2011).
>
> Jon
>
>
> On 11 October 2013 23:40, Ivar Janmaat <ijanmaat at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> Totally agree!
>> I looked at Xspice as an alternatief to ALP but you need a 10 Gbps network
>> if people want to use youtube.
>> The Sun Ray is really light-weight for simple multimedia and even works
>> well over WAN connections.
>>
>> As for pulsaudio. Xspice also needs pulsaudio to be able to transfer audio
>> to the client.
>> Xspice is still in developement.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Ivar
>>
>> Jonathan Adams schreef:
>>
>>   SunRays aren't easily replaced. they're a very cheap, reliable and
>>> versatile system.
>>>
>>> SunRays all support high resolutions out of the box. They all support
>>> smart
>>> card technology to connect to the correct session.  They are a true
>>> thin-client, a SunRay client uses less electricity than my set of LED
>>> fairy
>>> lights, that I hang in the office at Christmas. The protocol they use is
>>> exceptionally light-weight, possibly even better than RDP, orders of
>>> magnitude better than VNC.
>>>
>>> We've looked around for replacements to our system, but because we
>>> hot-desk
>>> (it's a laboratory, people walk about all day) most other clients just
>>> don't do what we need.  We've taken to buying up other peoples SunRays
>>> when
>>> they sell them off.
>>>
>>> They're one of the greatest systems/protocols that Sun produced, but
>>> because the margin was small, their sales guys just weren't interested in
>>> pushing them, except in the 1000s, and because of this they didn't know
>>> what they did, in order to push them in the market ... and with no profit
>>> coming from the line, Oracle dropped the product.
>>>
>>> Just my 2cents.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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