[OpenIndiana-discuss] pulseaudio

[Gary Gendel]

Jon,

I'd be happy to test what you've done.

Gary

On 10/14/2013 08:36 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> Okay, I just compiled opennx to get a client (which involved compiling
> nxssh as well) but it did work, and I've just connected to myself and it's
> still working ... wonders will never cease :)
>
>
> in which case I can probably just tar up the /usr/NX directory and get you
> to test it at your end?
>
> Jon
>
>
> On 14 October 2013 12:01, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> long time ago (2011) ... I've got a tar of it, but OI has changed a lot in
>> that time, I haven't actually tried to connect to it in a while
>>
>> I said (a while back) that I would have a go and see if I can a compile of
>> the latest version when I had time, and it kinda got forgotten about.
>>
>> It was a real hack though, I manually modified the Makefiles and ran some
>> of the compile lines by hand to make sure it picked up the system
>> libraries, I wanted to spend time getting it to work with less effort.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>> On 14 October 2013 11:39, Gary Gendel <gary at genashor.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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