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List:       opensolaris-desktop-discuss
Subject:    Re: [desktop-discuss] Future of Solaris on the desktop?
From:       "William Yang" <wyang () tjhsst ! edu>
Date:       2010-12-30 22:24:13
Message-ID: 010301cba870$4a26ee60$de74cb20$ () edu
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> Such alternative desktops might be a good solution for some Solaris
> users.  I do not believe Oracle has any current plans to support such
> an alternative desktop nor have I heard of any Solaris users who even
> use them.  However, such alternatives do exist and I would think Oracle
> might consider delivering and supporting such alternatives if customers
> found them useful and if there were a real demand.
> 
> It would be interesting to find out whether Sun Ray users find better
> performance or find they can support more concurrent desktop sessions
> with GNOME or such "light" desktops as LXDE/XFCE.

We run Solaris 10/Sun Ray and allow users to choose between JDS, KDE 3.5,
XFCE 4.4, Fluxbox, Fvwm, and Enlightenment (e16).  We also have CDE still
there, but I don't think anyone uses it.  I do know that we have users that
use KDE, XFCE, and Fluxbox (in addition to JDS, which is the default),
although I don't know any that are using Fvwm and e16.

GNOME 2.6 in the form of JDS is fairly light already; XFCE is lighter but
probably doesn't offer too much of an advantage over GNOME 2.6.  But since
newer versions of GNOME have gotten heftier, I would expect that XFCE would
allow Sun Ray use to scale farther than GNOME would.  The only gotcha we ran
into before was that by default, the XFCE mixer applet would monitor the
recording device by default, resulting in constant upstream traffic from any
DTU that was logged into XFCE.  I don't think it caused any problems, but if
you have sufficient DTUs doing this, you could potentially clog the upstream
pipe back to the Sun Ray server.

We'd really like to see Oracle continue to support the Windows-esque
one-panel layout used with JDS.  I'd say it's been one of the biggest
factors that have allowed us to deploy Sun Rays on Solaris into a previously
homogenous Windows environment without the need for training staff or
students.

William Yang

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