[Thinlinc-technical] thinlinc on openindiana x86?

[Peter Astrand]

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 :-)


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