[Server-devel] XSCE 0.2 on XO-1

[Sameer Verma]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 10:52 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote:
>> For what it's worth (and me not giving a rodent's behind) contrary to
>> popular consensus, I ran the XSCE instructions
>> (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.2/Installing)
>> on a XO-1. A couple of attempts ran out of space, so I restarted with
>> a 12.1.0 image and removed /home/olpc/Library and emptied
>> /home/olpc/Activities, except for Browse and Terminal (Browse for the
>> cloud, and Terminal for everything else).
>>
>> On the third run, it ran all the way, and now manages to provide me
>> with network activities. erlang/ejabberd is running. So are squid,
>> avahi, dhcpd, named, and dhclient. httpd isn't so I'll peek in and see
>> why. Not quite sure what else to do/check to see how it works. Does it
>> have a web UI? If so, didn't spot that in the instructions.
>>
>> df -h tells me that rootfs mounted on / has 155M available. Perhaps
>> getting rid of GNOME etc. will free up more space.
>>
>> Why did I do it? Short answer: Because I can. Longish answer: I would
>> like to see a common methodology of installation and provisioning of
>> services on all platforms, irrespective of form factor or CPU arch. So
>> far, it's promising.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sameer
>
> Maybe you can install a SD-card in the external slot and run the OS from
> there, that should take care of the space constringent.
>
> Jerry


Haven't tried, but that's always a possibility, or to mount the SD
card as extra storage, but still run the base OS from NAND. At some
point I'd like to load test the xsce and see how it holds up.

cheers,
Sameer