[Thinlinc-technical] thinlinc on openindiana x86?

[Johan Kragsterman]

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Ärende: Re: [Thinlinc-technical] thinlinc on openindiana x86?

On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Peter Arnold wrote:

> I'm looking at migrating a small sunray network to thinlinc. Currently its running SRSS 4.2 on openindiana 151a7 x86. I've downloaded the
> server and solaris client but they all seem to be sparc centric.
> 
> Is there or will there be a x86 version?
> 
> Has anyone set up thinlinc on any of the opensolaris derivitives?



"This is correct, the Solaris versions of the client and server only 
supports SPARC right now. There are bugs for supporting x86:

https://www.cendio.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2304
https://www.cendio.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2306

Also note that strictly speaking, we only support Solaris 10 (not 11) for 
the moment. Perhaps someone has successfully tested on Solaris 11 though? 
What if we should stop supporting Solaris 10 and only support Solaris 11 
in upcoming versions?

In general, providing binaries for a new platform is fairly resource 
intensive and involves update of the build system, documentation and 
testing. We can only support common platforms. So, a special ThinLinc 
version for OpenIndiana or illumos is not likely. On the other hand, as I 
understand it, these are binary compatible with Oracle Solaris 11, so it 
seems it would be sufficient to support that.

When it comes to adding support for Solaris x86, it's all about whether 
there's some substantial demand or not. When I was researching the market 
share some time ago, I found this article:

http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/tip/Commodity-Sun-x86-server-users-not-feeling-the-love-from-Oracle

It seems to me that the Solaris x86 platform is fading away, so it's 
somewhat difficult to motivate an investment in this OS. But if you feel 
otherwise, please tell us :-)"





The ORACLE Solaris platform is perhaps fading away, but the Illumos x86 platform is gaining. I guess its now 10-15 distributions built on it, and several commercially successful businesses, like the Smartos Smart Datacenter, Nexenta, OmniOs, Delphix, among many others.

Perhaps is it so, that Oracle feels competition on the x86 market, and put most of their effort more into Sparc.

About the client: I don't think there would be any special interest for a client for Illumos, the interest is for the possibility to run the server environment in ZONES ON ZFS. This would give you soooo many possibilities....

I understand that there are efforts in building, and perhaps more in maintaining support for a platform. Are there anything the community can do to help you with this?

Rgrds Johan