<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Thanks, </div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I have started with Oracle Linux Server and with a few DVD's burned and a few mistakes, I have it loaded on the kids server. from there i needed to install the Sun Ray Software, (and a VM client that is part of the suite). So, I have to rebuild the OLS due to install requirements SRS has! So I will start a list of steps on what do to.. if someone else is crazy enough to try is also.. ;^) </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> So far all of the software need is </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">available once I registered. Just a bit painful to find on the Oracle Distrubution site. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">jim </font></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Brian Fristensky <bfristen@shaw.ca><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Support list for open source software in schools. <k12osn@redhat.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, August 25, 2011 5:44:22 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [K12OSN] configuration questions<br></font><br> <br>I can report having seen a teaching lab full of SunRays,<br>in which the server ran CentOS, not Solaris. (CentOS is a spin of Red Hat<br>Enterprise Linux, very similar to Scientific Linux.)<br>That at least tells us that SunRay server is available for Linux, but I don't know if<br>that has been open-sourced or not.<br><br>The SunRays had full sound and USB capability and worked quite well.<br><br>Warren is correct in that LTSP is probably not going to work on a SunRay.<br><br>For what it's worth, the only thing I have in my office at work is a SunRay, and I do<br>everything on our university Sun Solaris system. For my money, it's better<br>than having a computer in my office.<br><br>Warren Togami Jr. wrote:<br>> I am not familiar with 2fs specifically, but if I understand Sun Ray, the X server doesn't run on the clients themselves. The clients have a proprietary Sunray remote desktop protocol to a Sun server where the X servers run. In the past I've used a Sparc Solaris server solely as the Sunray X servers, to XDMCP into a Linux LTSP terminal server. It mostly worked, without sound and remote USB. Had some difficulties with fonts.<br>> <br>> Warren<br>> <br>> On 8/24/2011 4:59 AM, Dean Jones wrote:<br>>> Hi,<br>>> <br>>> I think the Sun Ray 2fs clients are MIPS processor based and not<br>>> likely to work with k12 LTSP without a lot of work.<br>>> <br>>> <br>>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:08 PM, xbc bojali<<a ymailto="mailto:bojali@yahoo.com" href="mailto:bojali@yahoo.com">bojali@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>> <br>>>> Ok I am a new to this so I thought it would be a good idea to get some feed<br>>>> back. I am starting the conversion for my kids to k12lltsp. I have 3 Sun<br>>>> Ray 2FS Virtual Display Clients that I want to use for the thin clients, I<br>>>> have just bought a HP Quad core to build as the host/server for them. What<br>>>> is the Easiest way to build these? I started with Scientific Linux i86_64<br>>>> but was not able to get the ltsp-server-tweaks, to work. And then read from<br>>>> Rolands posts that i might need to use the 32bit not the 64?<br>>>> any help would be appreciated. I just started this yesterday!<br>>>> jim<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> K12OSN mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a><br>> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a><br><span>> For more info see <<a target="_blank" href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>></span><br>> <br><br>-- ============================================<br>Brian Fristensky<br>971 Somerville Avenue<br>Winnipeg MB R3T 1B4 CANADA<br><a ymailto="mailto:bfristen@shaw.ca" href="mailto:bfristen@shaw.ca">bfristen@shaw.ca</a><br>204-261-3960<br>============================================<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>K12OSN mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a><br><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a><br>For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org" target="_blank">http://www.k12os.org</a>><br></div></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; position: fixed; "></div> </div></body></html>