Here's something I've been wondering (and please don't take this as any
indication of future direction or intent, I'm just a curious developer
wanting to leverage our terrific User Group to get a little feedback,
particularly regarding gdm scalability/robustness/experience):
How many of you have a Linux server running SRSS with a large number of
Sun Ray sessions typically on it?
> 10 sessions?
> 50 sessions?
> 100 sessions?
I wonder who holds the record in this group :), and would be interested
in hearing what the experience was.
Thanks,
Bob
I use SRSS 4.0 (from Aug 2007) on RHEL AS 4.6.
I have cirka 35 sessions. Most "Sun Ray 2" and one "Sun Ray 2FS"
I love the system.
I think it is fairly stable, but the different versions of SRSS have
different stability. Right now with current version I need to reset a
terminal about once a week.
People hate the USB-support and sometimes a USB-stick freezes the
USB-support for everyone on that server until the server is rebooted. This
happens a couple of times per term and then we have to live without USB
for 6-8weeks until we can restart. People dislike that there's no icon on
the desktop for the USB-stick, no auto-unmounting. Red Hat had no solution
for this.
The server is better than before. It has a nice GUI, and right now there's
only 4-5 links inside the webserver that will crash the system if I press
the wrong button.
Sound works fine and has only crashed the server once and when it did it
dragged down the master server with it.
KDE is forbidden here, it has crashed the servers _many_ times upon login.
So all in all the system crashes much more than it did last year, but back
then we couldn't even enable USB or sound for our users.
My conclusion so far (after seeing very little from Sun Ray Solaris) is
that Sun Ray Solaris is more stable and Sun Ray Linux (RHEL 4 AS) works
and has more fun software that people actually use, but crashes every now
and then.
--
Other opinions are that Sun Ray is a great product compared to desktop
computers, it is cheap, less time to maintain and will be a real
killer product in the future when all needed features are added and the
stability is fixed.
-- Alexander
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