Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:58:21 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Ansar Mohammed <ansarm@gmail.com>, 'Robert Davison' <rob_27_preston@yahoo.co.uk>, <Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Thin Terminals Message-ID: <C13B6C8D.16A7D%ceri@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <000001c6df43$3445cb70$0405a8c0@northamerica.corp.microsoft.com>
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On 23/9/06 20:05, "Ansar Mohammed" <ansarm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>> questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ceri Davies
>> Sent: September 23, 2006 5:53 AM
>> To: Robert Davison; Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Thin Terminals
>>
>> On 20/9/06 13:37, "Robert Davison" <rob_27_preston@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> I've been looking at the Sun Ray terminals and like the idea of using
>> thin
>>> clients to connect to the main server to run apps. Are they any
>> programms in
>>> thr ports which allow a similar set-up using FreeBSD. I know you can do
>> this
>>> with X but would need a tutorial to help me through it.
>>>
>>> Anyone had a go at connecting a sun ray to FreeBSD or are the protocols
>>> totally different.
>>
>> The Sun Ray Server software runs on Linux as well as Solaris, so I'd say
>> that there's an outside chance that it might work. One day I'll get round
>> to buying a Sun Ray client and try it out.
> The Netier xl2000 is a much better platform. It's an amd k6 and upgradable
> to 128Mb RAM. You can get them on ebay for about 10$
Does it dance the Sun Ray dance, or are we back to rolling our own?
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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