At the moment I believe coping with fedora, would probably be more difficult than doing what you say you are already going go to do anyway. Why not let me start working on porting to debian, I will not be Nepal until June/July so have plenty of time. I believe, porting said packages to debian and running ebox is going to be easier than just looking at one of the existing builds, which might give me an idea of what XS does, but won't contribute in any way.<br>
<br>David<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:03 AM, Martin Langhoff <<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Welcome David!<br>
<br>
please use the XS images we are working on now, which are based on<br>
Fedora. We are exploring a Debian move, and your experience will be<br>
welcome there, but at the moment using Debian for the base of the XS<br>
will mean that you will have to package independently<br>
<br>
- the kernel with custom drivers/patches<br>
- ejabberd<br>
- idmgr<br>
- a lot of configuration settings<br>
<br>
We will package all of those in .debs soon, but it is a ton of complex<br>
work for you if you want to do it on your own. Try build 161 or 162,<br>
cope a bit with Fedora, and be part of the wider project here...<br>
<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
martin<br>
<br>
2008/4/11 David Van Assche <<a href="mailto:dvanassche@gmail.com">dvanassche@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Hi, I have recently applied for a volunteer position at OLE in Nepal,<br>
> and it was suggested I introduce myself here. So here goes. I have been<br>
> involved in the Linux community for a while, but my experience lies very<br>
> much in the Debian/Ubuntu field, which I feel is far friendlier and more<br>
> logical than the other distros. I have run my own IT company for 5 years,<br>
> where we built bespoke programs, but mostly web solutions and administering<br>
> accounts. Since then I administered a medium sized school, building the<br>
> entire system based on LTSP (an amazing system) which really allows for the<br>
> administration side to be a non-headache. I also taught IT for a year at<br>
> this school. I've been following the list a little and I've taken a look at<br>
> sugar which is very intriguing, though obviously very young still. I've been<br>
> talking to Bryan Berry from OLENepal, and suggested installing a prototype<br>
> XS server based on ebox with ubuntu or debian under the hood. The main<br>
> reason is my knowledge in this area and the fact that I'll need to teach<br>
> this to other sysadmins/teachers in Nepal. I know you guys have some ideas<br>
> already, and you've already started on something, and I wouldn't want to<br>
> just branch without synchronizing with the XS devel team. There are many<br>
> aspects of the mesh networking aspect that I'm not to clear about, as I've<br>
> never worked with this, though it seems pretty clear. I have always worked<br>
> with webmin with my ltsp system without any problems, though I know how<br>
> developers feel about its security and its internal workings, but lets be<br>
> clear here, we're working with schools, not banks.... so I don't see the<br>
> fuss. Anyway, I do think ebox is a good full solution that would do a better<br>
> job than webmin in terms of security, and would be easily understood by most<br>
> admins... With your blessign, I'd like to go ahead and build a prototype<br>
> based on debian or Ubuntu for Nepal... with whatever help is needed from<br>
> the XS devel team.<br>
><br>
> Kind Regards,<br>
> David Van Assche<br>
><br>
><br>
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