[Server-devel] Ultra Mobile XO Server

s.boutayeb at free.fr s.boutayeb at free.fr
Mon Jun 23 11:26:00 EDT 2008


Hi Martin,

Thank you for your useful comments!

On the software side, we will certainly integrate in this project important
components such as the Moodle server, thus allowing the teachers/administrators
to monitor and manage the whole class easier.

Best regards

Samy

Selon Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:23 AM,  <s.boutayeb at free.fr> wrote:
> > We could have 2 options:
> > a/ a dedicated XO based XS server, to be used during classtime, serving
> > eventually a few (< 40-50) XOs, for example in a class) as well as the
> teachers
> > monitoring XO.
>
> Hi Samy!
>
> Excellent project! I think this ("a") is the most viable option. What
> we mainly need at the moment is work in fixing any bugs in the LiveCD
> install we have that are preventing installation on an XO, and
> ensuring we can support an external HD for storage easily. There is
> also work to be done in shrinking the memory footprint of the current
> XS software, and we can work together on that.
>
> The XS software should be the same regardless of HW. With a bit of
> tuning (and perhaps alternative config files) the software can
> definitely run on an XO.
>
> And once we have achieved that goal, you might want to tackle the
> multi-boot option, but the XO does not have enough storage to handle
> the XS role, and much less a multi-boot XO/XS.
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
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