Lars Tunkrans wrote: > IMHO CDE can not removed until usable alternatives are available for > Sun Ray. > > Several Sun Ray utilities ( utsettings , utswitch ..... ) are MOTIF based > utilities.
The Motif libraries are not going away. Neither 'utswitch' nor 'utsettings' uses Motif. You might have been thinking of 'utselect' and 'utwall' which both use CDE programs. 'utselect' uses 'dtksh', which is one of the parts of CDE that is not going away. 'utwall' uses 'dterror.ds', which is another part of CDE that is not going away. The most important Sun Ray programs that use Motif directly are the NSCM login greeters. They also use one widget from a CDE library, which I think is staying but I'll need to confirm that. > Login from Sun Ray is depending on dtlogin. That's the biggest concern for Sun Ray. We know Sun Ray can work with GDM (it runs with GDM on Linux) but we don't have a lot of runtime against the GDM on Solaris so we don't know how solid it will be. It might be fine, but I'd probably still stash away the final set of Nevada CDE packages just in case. > If Sun Ray cant be used from a Nevada SXCE " Build ", nor from OpenSolaris > most users will be forced to run Sun Ray off Linux servers as the > desktop > in Solaris 10u5 is still Gnome 2.6 and feels very dated by now. Dated or not, S10 is still the only Solaris release officially supported by Sun Ray. It's great that people are experimenting with Sun Ray on Nevada and OpenSolaris, but if you want Sun Support to take a call you should keep an S10 system in your back pocket so that you can reproduce the problem there. Mike. -- mike.oliver at sun.com
