My thoughts exactly on SRSS on Linux vs. Solaris. Not to make a flame war but SRSS on Linux does and always has felt like an afterthought. When we ran it on Soalris we had almost no problems, but after switching to Linux we have about 3-4 issues per semester. We had to make the switch to Linux (which we like as an OS better than Solaris anyway) because users needed certain applications. That and Gnome is just so much nicer than that JDS one (and obviously CDE which we had before). We abandoned USB on linux because it was way too cumbersome for the user.
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Alexander Koponen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Alexander Koponen System Administrator > Institut Mittag-Leffler phone: +46 8 622 05 75 > Auravagen 17 fax: +46 8 622 05 89 > SE-182 60 DJURSHOLM [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SWEDEN http://www.mittag-leffler.se/ > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > -- Greg Rodenhiser College of the Holy Cross Technical Services Engineer
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