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cloper wrote:

> I have a few SUNRay thin clients that I would like to use on something 
> other than Solaris. Has anyone successfully used these under BSD? Does 
> anyone have any ideas what so ever?

I've seen an installation of about 30 SunRays before and I seem to 
remember thinking that they needed specialised software from Sun running 
under Solaris in order to work. They are *really* thin clients that 
really only consist of a monitor, mouse and keyboard and rely on their 
host server for everything else. That's not an architecture that you're 
going to get FreeBSD to run under I wouldn't think.

I'd like to be proved wrong however. Perhaps the rays just provide an X 
Server or somesuch and you could persuade them to display the output of 
XFree86 under FreeBSD?

I don't know enough detail to say for sure - do some investigating then 
come back and tell us all!

Also, you might want to ask on the sparc64@freebsd.org list, where more 
experienced Sun people hang out I'm sure.

Good luck!

Andrew