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Thursday April 28, 2005
Sun Rays for the whole Family Non-Sun-employee Dave has a good blog entry on using Sun Rays at home. Seems like his family has no problem moving from Windows XP to Gnome. He also has an interesting idea about packaging for home use.
Dave, your on to something ...
(2005-04-28 12:47:12.0) Permalink Comments [4]
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Posted by Azeem Jiva on April 28, 2005 at 04:24 PM PDT #
Besides, web browsing nowaday is not neccessarily lightweight. Flash menu/animation, streaming media all requires CPU/memory. From my personal experience, I've once prstat'ed my mozilla on Solaris 10, it takes about 350 MB of virtual memory. (I do tabbed browsing, so there are several tabs)
I wonder what the server spec is to get a SunRay setup going with user experience on par with Windows XP PC. Will it be prohibitive so that one might get every family member a XP pc instead?
Posted by Ivan Wang on April 28, 2005 at 08:57 PM PDT #
The X server runs on the server as well. There is a proprietary protocol (ALP) that runs between the server and the Sun Ray. The protocol is mostly UDP packets conaining (compressed) screen bits. The Sun Ray is a really, really dumb device. Whatever application runs on the Server therefore runs "on the Sun Ray".
Your point about resources is a good one. The Sun Ray is about sharing resources, assuming that not everyone wants the same resources at the same time. If they do want the same resources at the same time, the server has to be sized appropriately. Even so, the read-only pages in memory are shared among all applications, and the CPU can multi-task a decent multiple users for most tasks.
Posted by John Clingan on April 28, 2005 at 09:19 PM PDT #
Posted by Alex Goncalves on April 29, 2005 at 11:36 AM PDT #