On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:33:17PM +0000, Tjiputra Yapeter wrote: > Hi All, > ... > We prepare 2 unit of Sun X4155 for 20 developers. What's is the server os > recommended for this? Most of our developer now work using opensuse 10.3 > with KDE.
What we do here, in a smaller but otherwise similar setup, is to have one system running SRSS. This system is running a Linux distribution with KDE. The system is configured so that it is *not* possible to (accidentally) run the software we develop. Instead, we have a number of other systems on which we run distributed build jobs, debuggers, vmware etc. etc. This ensures that the desktop is always responsive. Nobody will ever start up a large job on the "desktop server" (SRSS), causing interactivity problems for others. I'd definitely recommend such a setup. It allows people to hit the development systems really hard - you can run the jobs you need to, without thinking about being "nice" to everyone else. Second benefit is, that you can run a good Linux distribution with a proper desktop environment, while still running precisely the OS you need for development. You just 'rsh' from the SRSS system to one of the developer systems - with shared home directories and working xauth, it's like it was the same computer (except you have *both* a stable development environment *and* a proper desktop). > I'm sorry if I directly put so much questions here. I just have 1 days left. > Next year they will start using it, and either Sun Microsystems Indonesia > never installed Sun Ray. Good luck! -- / jakob _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
