SUNRays

[Andrew Boothman]

cloper wrote:

> I have a few SUNRay thin clients that I would like to use on something 
> other than Solaris. Has anyone successfully used these under BSD? Does 
> anyone have any ideas what so ever?

I've seen an installation of about 30 SunRays before and I seem to 
remember thinking that they needed specialised software from Sun running 
under Solaris in order to work. They are *really* thin clients that 
really only consist of a monitor, mouse and keyboard and rely on their 
host server for everything else. That's not an architecture that you're 
going to get FreeBSD to run under I wouldn't think.

I'd like to be proved wrong however. Perhaps the rays just provide an X 
Server or somesuch and you could persuade them to display the output of 
XFree86 under FreeBSD?

I don't know enough detail to say for sure - do some investigating then 
come back and tell us all!

Also, you might want to ask on the sparc64 at freebsd.org list, where more 
experienced Sun people hang out I'm sure.

Good luck!

Andrew