[Server-devel] Supporting OLPC School Servers with LAMP Stacks

[Tony Pearson]

Yama,
Yes, thanks for the offer.   The "XS Latest" is what we refer to as the 
XS-150 release.  It is a LiveCD that will wipe clean your sytem and 
install the base software.  If you wish to help test, please sign up 
(subscribe) on the discussion list 
(http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel).  Download the ISO file, 
burn yourself the CD, and then use that to boot your system that you will 
clobber.

We are trying to get something ready for OLE-Nepal by March/April.  Here 
is the configuration:  http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/138

The only thing really unique to OLPC XO laptops is the use of an "active 
antenna" to drive the mesh for the student laptops.  This can be emulated 
with a second ethernet NIC card and Wi-Fi hub to any laptop with Wi-Fi 
access.  (Or a wire-connected second machine)

For a better understanding overall here is the main wiki page: 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS

I agree we need to deal with content.  We need to worry about language 
translation, age-appropriate filtering, caching to improve performance, 
etc.  Any ideas you can contribute will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks






Tony Pearson
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Yama Ploskonka <yama at netoso.com> 
02/13/2008 08:20 AM

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Tony Pearson/Tucson/IBM at IBMUS
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Subject
Supporting OLPC School Servers with LAMP Stacks






Tony,

I have several computers waiting to be used for something, saving them
for just something like what you are proposing.
I am downloading the Jan 18 OLPC_XS_LATEST.iso from
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/ and later today will load it into a
machine.  I have also been saving paperware, lots of, driving my wife
nuts :-)
Please advise if this is the software you are using, and or if you have
another better suggestion.

I have no access to an OLPC yet, and in any case whatever is achieved I
hope will be platform independent, able to serve Classmates, Eees, old
hardware...
I want to collaborate with your initiative.  It obviously will save me
(some) from feeling I need to reinvent the wheel.

My take is on the content side.  I am very happy someone will figure out
the hardware & major software issues, like LAMP
I am convinced that most OLPC deployments will happen with little or no
actual access to the internet

Yama

a comment to your OLPC News note earlier today:

Tony, I believe you have hit the nail right on the head as to what is
The Next Big Challenge in terms of successful OLPC deployment.  So much
I agree with you that I am considering starting a non-profit to solve
the OLPC-to-rest-of-the-world interface, and in that sense the school
server is obviously vital, and in the absence of connectivity to the
internet, which will be the case more often than not, probably THE main
element to make OLPCs work.  I've seen
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Server_Specification and I find their
approach to hardware issues very interesting.  Yet the next problem I
see is in content, content management, content access.  In my mind see a
Wikipedia copy on the server, and a wiki that OLPC users can access and
work with.  I'm sure there is more.  I will download and install their
live CD and set it in one of my test machines, and contact you through
your email.


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