[desktop-discuss] Re: [appliances-discuss] Re: Article idea "Getting Small"?

[Eric Boutilier]

Joel Buckley wrote:

>>>Eric Boutilier wrote:
>>>
>>>Ok, but seriously, why minimize a user desktop?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>
>The limiting factor on SunRay2 deployment is Memory
>use on per User Desktop.  60 SunRay User Desktops
>managed on a single SunRay Server appears to be typical...
>
>The top memory consumption programs are:
>
>- Xorg
>- Mozilla
>- Firefox
>- Thunderbird
>- StarOffice
>- Gnome-Terminal
>
>In the target audience for SunRays, what are the primary
>applications utilized on SunRays?
>
>Any reductions in Memory consumption of the above applications
>results in a direct ability to scale SunRay User Desktops on a
>single SunRay Server instance.
>
>Joel.
>  
>

It seems to me that a browser is a must-have pretty much 100% of the 
time. And IMO (for any SunRay target audience I can think of) it would 
have to be Firefox. Those kinds of deployments always seem to need the 
most feature-full and familiar (multi-platform) browser there is, and on 
those terms Firefox is looking like a runaway winner these days.

Eric