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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/12/2013 3:44 AM, Sridhar
Dhanapalan wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 12 March 2013 01:26, Daniel Drake
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<div class="im">On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Richard
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> Perhaps I don't understand but I don't see how OOB
can work for a setup like<br>
> Adam is describing in Haiti where they have laptops
in the mix that are<br>
> secure. Unless they first un-secure every laptop a
custom OS build wth OOB<br>
> would have to be signed by OLPC or Reuben would
have to give them a Haiti<br>
> key thats installed via keyjector.<br>
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This is not a new situation for us, and the approach we
have taken in<br>
the past is to help such deployments un-secure all of
their laptops,<br>
or provide a keyjector to insert custom keys, upon their
request.<br>
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<div>I find it worrisome that such a useful tool
(customisation stick) is no longer being maintained. We've
been able to achieve some very useful things with it for
our schools, expanding its capability to perform tasks
like bulk installing software and activities, and quickly
deploying settings across many XOs.<br>
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<div>This is not an either/or question. Creating a custom
build per classroom is not practical, and installing such
a build is destructive. We see the customisation stick as
an extremely useful complement to OOB, not a replacement.<br>
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<div>If there's no interest at OLPCA to maintain it, what we
to continue it?<br>
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Great & tough question!<br>
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For now the small deployments I'm working with in Haiti here are
taking a step back to Release 11.3.1, to protect themselves on a
number of fronts.<br>
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We're hopeful (as is Gonzalo) that Releases 12.x, 13.x,
Dextrose-or-similar will be as fast & reliable as 11.3.1 in
future..and run WikipediaFR perhaps most important ;)<br>
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