I have two experimental schoolserver tweaks available for those who are interested.<br><br>These are not officially supported, have only seen light testing, and may break in interesting ways, so please use caution if you choose to try them out. Testing these with school servers or XO builds used by students may not be advisable unless you have a good backup strategy.<br>
<br>Until 13.1.0 comes out, my available time to work on these is limited.<br><br><ol><li>The first experimental item I have is a Moodle update for schoolservers which upgrades Moodle from version 1.9.5 to 1.9.19. As the version numbers imply, this includes a significant number of upstream updates and fixes.<br>
<br>XO-based authentication, antitheft control, and general Moodle usage still seem to function after the update, but I have not done extensive testing. No config.php changes are required but there are a few settings that may be of interest.<br>
<br>A RPM packaged version of the Moodle update is available from <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/~greenfeld/xs/">http://dev.laptop.org/~greenfeld/xs/</a> . The git source repository can be seen at <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/greenfeld/moodle/">http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/greenfeld/moodle/</a> (please note that the merge commit is huge).<br>
<br><br></li><li>The second item I have is a kludge for olpc-os-builder which can create XO installation images altered to allow XOs to be used with schoolservers which cannot be accessed by the DNS name of "schoolserver".<br>
<br>There are many reasons this occurs, including but not limited to: the schoolserver being prohibited from controlling the network XOs are on; a desire for more than one school to use the same XS; a flat DNS structure used by more than one school; etc.<br>
<br>This support appears as a set of patches to olpc-os-builder found attached to the enhancement ticket at <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12156">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12156</a> .<br><br>Altering a schoolserver to use a DNS name other than "schoolserver" currently is messy, with lots of files requiring edits. While I did test this against a XS modified to use a different name, I have not had the chance to write a script to automate the process.</li>
</ol><br>---<br>SJG<br><p><br></p>