[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Ray server, OS and VDI patches were released by Oracle last week.

[Jerry Kemp]

Yep, the filibeto.org mailing list.

The last post that I have was from 24 September 2015.

I need to qualify my comment.  AFAIK, there was no official end that was posted 
that I was aware of.

At some point, shortly after Oracle announced that they would be discontinuing 
the SunRay line, all activity from the mailing list dried up, and, then a short 
period after that, the associated web site http://www.sun-rays.org/

dropped off of the Internet.

Reviewing the Wayback Machine archives, the last crawl of the web site was here:

<http://web.archive.org/web/20140107163537/http://sun-rays.org/>

Although I believe that the web site was online at least into 2015.

I have mixed feelings about the list.  The software generally both installed and 
worked pretty well on Solaris.  The stuff I really enjoyed from the list was 
that Sun->Oracle engineers & developers were on the list and shared tips and tricks.

At some point, the SRSS software had been ported to lunix, and was very unstable 
on that platform.  At least, that is how it appeared to me.  I never attempted 
to run SRSS on lunix.  But, the whole mood of the list changed after the port. 
At least from my perspective (and you know what that's worth :) ), the whole 
mood of the list changed, and now the list was all about trying to resolve and 
run SRSS on the new platform.  Slim to almost no Solaris based content.

I was tempted many time to suggest that the list split into two, one for each 
operating system, but didn't.  IMHO, the SunRay was a great thin client 
platform, and I personally own 6, although I only have one (2FS) in use right 
now.  I would like to grab one of the Oracle 3+'s at some point in the future, 
should one cross my path at the right price.

Thanks again for sharing updates on this product.


Jerry



On 11/ 7/16 01:51 AM, Nikola M wrote:

>
> If you are thinking on
> http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users ,
> I think I have full archive of it in my Thunderbird,
> and I see last message truly was from the end of 2015.
> I was under impression that nobody posted to it, but your info put more
> light into it now.
>
> Maybe, with the full archive of the list, it can be restarted on another
> place.
> What do you (everyone) think that place might be for hosting mailing
> list about Sunray, that could stay there for long, including archives?
>
>