Category Archives: server based computing

thin clients, remote desktops, citrix and stuff…

german feature on virtual desktop infrastructure

searchdatacenter.de, one of the leading german sites about datacenter setups and virtualization, has a very nice overview of the virtual desktop infrastructure. it includes features of different vendors as wyse, sun, citrix and of course vmware. you should have a look on the supplied whitepapers if you’re interested in virtualizing your desktops. one major plus [...]
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more flexible sunray kiosk mode

a short link for reminiscence reasons: check out the FLButselector package, a framework to make sun ray kiosk/cam mode more flexible, assigning per-token and per-dtu default applications. here are the techspecs: As of current release, you can do quite a lot by assigning applications not only to “correctly” registered tokens, but to DTUs as well – in [...]
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new citrix client for solaris x86

finally it’s done: there is a new citrix client for solaris hosts based on x86 architecture. we’ve been waiting years for an updated version, now there is client v8.5 available: click here to download the citrix client for solaris x86 huge thanks to citrix!
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usb drive deamon for sun ray environments

okay, time for more updates. as months went by, my usb mount/unmount script has been used by several sun ray admins, who have written me uplifting mails. thanks for your replies, dudes! but meanwhile daniel cifuentes came up with the “usb drive daemon” which i think is even better suited to fit your sun ray [...]
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planet sunray-users, here i come

i am now part of the great family of sun ray bloggers aggregated in planet sunray-users. there you can find a lot of very valuable information regarding the desktop products of sun microsystems. included in the list of authors are famous names like bob doolittle, the thinguy, brad lackey, pearley mears and the fat bloke. [...]
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