[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Contol-Panel packaging

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 2 August 2012 21:06, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 09:53 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> Do you have any form of proxy? A local transparent proxy would mean
>> 400 XOs still only download 800Kb over the link. There's lots of ways
>> to skin a cat.
>>
>
> We have no control over the network environment what so ever and need to
> work within the confines of what is available.

This is our primary constraint: we cannot install servers or proxies.

Schools in remote areas have latent/slow/expensive Internet links.
You'd think that a caching proxy is common sense. Unfortunately not :(

Furthermore, the newer wireless networks treat every client as
potentially hostile and hence prevent them from communicating with
each other. This also means that no collaboration can take place.

Sridhar


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