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<DIV>Thanks Marc, Walter, Sameer , Ankur and others. What I gather is that
dual-boot XOs could be used in the classrooms as well as for vocational training
& Back Office Support with attached key-board & mouse, but performance
may be an issue. </DIV>
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<DIV>Can you also educate us on other associated aspects:</DIV>
<DIV>1. Server Requirements & estimated cost, if we start with 20 XOs
and add up to 100 in a year or two</DIV>
<DIV>2. Power Backup / UPS and other infrastructure requirements as at RK Girls
College, we rarely get more than 6-7 hours electricity and voltage
fluctuations are often from 110V-350V. The supply is during days some weeks
and during night other weeks.</DIV>
<DIV>3. Networking between XOs and use of email thru XOs. Currently
we are using Tata Indicom wireless (Web Serf) services available from
Kanpur dealers.</DIV>
<DIV>4. Best way of using VOIP services of Vonage or other service from US
providers </DIV>
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<DIV>Regards .......... Sheel</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 9/30/2008 11:46:41 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
sverma@sfsu.edu writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>On Tue,
Sep 30, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender@gmail.com>
wrote:<BR>> I cannot speak for OLPC, but in general, the Sugar learning
platform<BR>> is configurable as a session option such that a computer can
be<BR>> switched back and forth between a conventional Linux desktop and
Sugar<BR>> at the granularity of the login session. So yes, it would be
possible<BR>> to support the scenario that you are
proposing.<BR>><BR>> regards.<BR>><BR>> -walter<BR>><BR>>
--<BR>> Walter Bender<BR>> Sugar Labs<BR>>
http://www.sugarlabs.org<BR>>
_______________________________________________<BR>> India mailing
list<BR>> India@lists.laptop.org<BR>>
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india<BR>><BR><BR>Ah! You are proposing
using a GNOME-like environment on an XO to have<BR>access to things like
OpenOffice, etc. but I suspect Sheel's approach<BR>is leaning towards
"vocational" as in turn-the-handle-and-the<BR>mill-will-produce MS Windows +
MS Office. Sheel, is this correct? Are<BR>you thinking of specific platforms,
or are you thinking of specific<BR>skills? If it is the latter, Walter's
suggestion will work well.<BR>Skills for word-processing, spreadsheets, etc.
can be obtained easily<BR>with OpenOffice on Linux on an XO, without the
overhead of an<BR>anti-virus suite :-)<BR><BR>cheers,<BR>Sameer<BR>-- <BR>Dr.
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<BR>Associate Professor of Information Systems<BR>San
Francisco State University<BR>San Francisco CA 94132
USA<BR>http://verma.sfsu.edu/<BR>http://opensource.sfsu.edu/<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Looking for simple solutions to your real-life financial challenges? <A title="http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1209382257x1200540686/aol?redir=http://www.walletpop.com/?NCID=emlcntuswall00000001" href="http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1209382257x1200540686/aol?redir=http://www.walletpop.com/?NCID=emlcntuswall00000001" target="_blank">Check out WalletPop for the latest news and information, tips and calculators</A>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>