sunray is so good.
Just how good is Sunray 2.0 !!
At home I have an opteron based PC running a late build of
nevada
with the
sunray
4 beta software on it driving a couple of desktops. The DTUs
used to be in a separate room from the pc using ethernet over the mains
but with our new room at home the PC and the sunrays are on a switch
and the internet is off through the ethernet over mains network.
The sunrays are silent, use little power and are fine for everything
but video watching where they start to stumble a bit. Team them with
some lcd monitors and they are great.
But the best bit is that one of the DTU is a 2.0 unit with
the beta firmware
that has a vpn client within it. So I don't need to turn the PC on at
home at all to work from home and because we use sunray in our campus
( I get a big share of a big machine most of the
time) The sunray in our house just connects to my existing session and
brings it into my house. I can carry on working where I left
off and came home and it doesn't feel any slower at all.
I was surprised the other day because I was listening to internet radio
at work and when the sunray at home connected to my work session the
radio came out of the sunrays speakers at home - fabulous!!
If I had to kit out a office I would use sunray for the
desktops and put the server in the computer room where computers
belong, a cool, quiet office
with just one computer to maintain. Obviously with solaris on the
server so that standard O/S features like the fair share scheduler
protect me from other folks cpu hogging applications.
At home I'd like an ISP to offer sunray server over the internet then I
would never need a computer at home.
Posted by Sean Clarke on June 15, 2007 at 07:51 AM GMT+00:00 #