Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 03:32:40 -0800 From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@suse.com> Message-ID: <20010121033240.A31615@gimp.org> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] SUSE and Xray
* Gary <gary@spiritwars.com> [010121 02:58]:
> After writing all that I realized that you wrote Xray and not Sun
> Ray. What's an Xray?
I took it the same way you did... I think he means Sun Ray as the only
stuff I can find on Sun Xrays are actual x-rays of the star that our
planet orbits, and this:
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9809/sunflash.980921.1.html
which doesn't seem to fit the bill. ;)
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Ioan-Lucian Muntean wrote:
> > I administrate a SPARC server with ten X rays in DHCP mode. We intend to
> > install SUSE sparc on this station.
>
> I hope you don't plan on installing it on the Solaris server that's
> running the SunRay software. They are all Solaris binaries and it's
> unlikely you'll get it working under any kind of emulation mode -- does
> SuSe/sparc have Solaris emulation? I can't remember if it was mentioned
> here or on one of the other sparc OS lists I'm on.
Sparc/Linux on the UltraSPARCs (but not the 32-bit SPARCs) is capable of
running Solaris applications using "solemu". It has a limitation,
though... it cannot run threaded applications due to the large
difference in threads between Solaris and Linux. (The "lxrun" utility
from SCO and made to run on Solaris has the same limitation in running
Linux applications.)
> > Please let me know if anybody have had experienced problems with X
> > Rays stationss with suse.
>
> Here's something you certainly can do... Install SuSe on a new
> server. Config xdm to allow logings from anywhere on your network via
> broadcast. At the CDE login for your main Solaris server you'll have an
> option for remote login -- it'll let you browse for any xdm sessions on
> your LAN. This is how I've logged into all manner of OSes from my SunRay.
An alternative is if you have a spare Sun Ray that you don't mind
parting with... at least for a while... send it to Pete Zaitcev, who I
know is interested in playing with one. Pete is one of the big reasons
why Linux currently runs on the Javastations. If this sounds
interesting, let me know.
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