[plug] slightly OT?: SPARC gear looking for home

[Quintin Lette]

the cooler thing is SRSS is now included in the Sun Enterprise system
(ie its now free, used to be US$100 per seat)
I run 2 of the 150s (integrated 15inch LCD) at home (with a debian
server) and they work great

On 4/13/06, Simon Marko <s.marko at bigpond.com> wrote:
> Denis Brown wrote:
>
> > Dear PLUG people,
> >
> > Some SPARC equipment is about to be disposed of including some thin
> > clients (new in boxes)   Apols for possibly OT but if these don't find
> > a home they're destined for the dumpster.   The price figures are open
> > for interpretation - as I say they are dumpster-headed if no homes
> > found :-)
> >
> > * Sun Solaris Thin Clients, 11 new still in boxes, 6 used
> >
> > * SPARC Server 10, monitor,  mouse, keyboard
> >
> > * SPARC server 1000
> >
> > * Sun RAID array - details unknown
> >
> > All above: Age=5 yrs, Price=$50, Cond=presumed good
> >
> > If any interest contact me in first instance and I will check with
> > disposee.   First dibs will go to UWA people however.
> >
> > Denis
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> When you say "Thin Clients"  there are several models:
>
> Sun Ray 1 (Sunray 1G is similar with DVI Video out)
> http://au.sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunRay1/SunRay1.html
>
> Sun Ray 100
> http://au.sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunRay100/SunRay100.html
>
> Sun Ray 150
> http://au.sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunRay150/SunRay150.html
>
> Sun Ray 170 (My Favourite)
> http://au.sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunRay170/SunRay170.html
>
> One really cool thing about these is the smart-card hot desking - you
> yank your card while logged in and the thin client workstation logs off,
> saving your desktop applications etc. which are still running on the
> host system. You can then plug in at any other client WS and pick up
> where you left off.
> I haven't checked but LTSP can probably do this too, but probably not
> with a smart card - it's only a matter of time though!
> The 1G and 170 are the only systems not End Of Life.
>
> ::SimonM::
>
>
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