[Server-devel] Ultra Mobile XO Server

s.boutayeb at free.fr s.boutayeb at free.fr
Tue Jun 24 12:07:56 EDT 2008


Thank you Martin,

Of course, the "Ultra Mobile XO Server" project will be a community development
effort. This is due to 3 complementary factors:

- I am primary a "Pootle translator" & one of the board members of our young
grassroot organization "OLPC France". OLPC France is willing to contribute to
the success of the OLPC project and to the emergence of active grassroot
organizations here in Europe.

- We want to build our efforts on the previous developments

- We will make soon an appeal to French / European developers at the 9th "Libre
Software Meeting / Rencontre Mondiale des Logiciels Libres" LSM/RMLL
(http://2008.rmll.info/), where a very important community of educative content
and FOSS developers is expected. We are planning as well to launch during this
event an "Idea Contest" for which we want help to build a french/european
community of developers/educators contribution to the OLPC project. Our "Ultra
Mobile XO Server" will also be one of the development projects we want to push.

Actually, we do use virtualization software as VirtualBox and Qemu in order to
explore the possible issues around this project, due to the lack of appropriate
HW, but we will soon need a few XOs. We will then hopefully be able to
contribute fully and to share more and more with the global OLPC comunity.

Best regards,

Samy


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

> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:53 AM,  <s.boutayeb at free.fr> wrote:
> > Our project "Ultra Mobile XO Server" is located here
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/UltraMobileXOServer and here
> > http://llaske.free.fr/olpcfrance/index.php?title=UltraMobileXOServer
>
> Hi Samy,
>
>  - it would be great if you could use this mailing list to coordinate
> work :-) -- it would be great if your efforts end up in improvements
> (ideally as patches) to the kickstart configuration we use, and to the
> xs-config we are using.
>
> One concrete thing to get started would be replacing the current
> BIND+DHCP with dnsmasq. On a base XS install, ps_mem.py (from
> http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py ) reports that BIND is
> sitting on almost 30MB of RAM. Yuck.
>
> Related bugs
> "Won't install on small disks"
> https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7241
>
> some DHCP related issues that might be easier to address with dnsmasq
> https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6138
> https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6039
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
> --
>  martin.langhoff at gmail.com
>  martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
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