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 <t12nsloo...@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 <g...@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 <ijanm...@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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> ______________________________****_________________ >>>> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >>>> OpenIndiana-discuss@**openindi**ana.org <http://openindiana.org>< >>>> OpenIndiana-discuss@**openindiana.org<OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org> >>>> > >>>> http://openindiana.org/****mailman/listinfo/openindiana-****discuss<http://openindiana.org/**mailman/listinfo/openindiana-**discuss> >>>> <http://openindiana.**org/mailman/listinfo/**openindiana-discuss<http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss> >>>> > >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >>> OpenIndiana-discuss@**openindiana.org<OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org> >>> http://openindiana.org/**mailman/listinfo/openindiana-**discuss<http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss> >>> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> OpenIndiana-discuss@**openindiana.org<OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org> >> http://openindiana.org/**mailman/listinfo/openindiana-**discuss<http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss> >> > > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss