<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Jerry Vonau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jvonau3@gmail.com" target="_blank">jvonau3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Opps... make that: <a href="http://www.xsce.org/downloads/Server/images/XSCEF20L.iso" target="_blank">http://www.xsce.org/downloads/Server/images/XSCEF20L.iso</a><br></div>thanks, Anish.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class=""><font color="#888888">Jerry<br></font></span></div><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Jerry Vonau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jvonau3@gmail.com" target="_blank">jvonau3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>There is a beta LiveDVD.iso image based on F20[1], boots in a vm, suitable for dd'img to usb, or burning to DVD. Log in with root and no password, and launch the install by typing "liveinst". The stock Fedora installer is launched, just go through the screens, when rebooted you should have the same install as ./install-console provides. Note, this version needs internet access to complete, and will be addressed in the next version.<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra">On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Danishka Navin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danishka@gmail.com" target="_blank">danishka@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I am working on Fedora remix which ship both gnome and sugar desktop (along with all sugar activities packaged to fedora).<br></div><div>I never used a school server before and I don't have exact count on how many people use Sugar desktop in this remix.<br><br></div><div>I will have a look on your CentOS based school server,<br></div><div>I can do the same on Fedora if it useful for someone.<br><br></div><div>Keep it up your good work!<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Dramatic Progress, on both fronts: Fedora 20 and CentOS<br><br>If we pull
it off (if volunteers help Jerry & George test) then
some of the most neglected schools/libraries worldwide will benefit powerfully until June 30 2024: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#End-of-support_schedule">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#End-of-support_schedule</a><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div>Danishka<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:40 PM, George Hunt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:georgejhunt@gmail.com" target="_blank">georgejhunt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Although I must admit, when I started playing with Centos, it was more to try to find more alignment with Tony Anderson's work on content, than to impact the focus of the XSCE development effort. He's been very clear that Centos was the only option for him.<div><br></div><div>But the idea seems to have legs. Jerry Vonau, who had not been active in XSCE for a while, started contributing again, and within a week or two, had made the changes to our code base, so it cleanly installs on stock Centos 7. (Whether all of the services function as required, particularly those that we had to compile ourselves, is still to be discovered).</div><div><br></div><div>So now it's time for our XSCE, our School Server Community Edition, to start living up to its name. I don't think the three of us, Tim, Jerry, and myself, have enough bandwidth to take on another distribution platform. Or speaking for myself, I'm retired, and as Tim said to me recently, I'm working harder than I did before I retired.</div><div><br></div><div>But if there are volunteers who are willing to test, and maybe even help diagnose problems, I need to put my fear aside. It may change the nature of the task for me, because to include others, documentation becomes essential. And it's not my strong suit.</div><div><br></div><div>The offline install process using a USB stick is newly developed, and needs testers. There are Centos, x86_64 and i686 images at unleashkids.</div><div>The Centos one is 2GB at <a href="http://download.unleashkids.org/xsce/downloads/installer/" target="_blank">http://download.unleashkids.org/xsce/downloads/installer/</a><a href="http://download.unleashkids.org/xsce/downloads/installer/centos_150326_all.img" target="_blank">centos_150326_all.img</a></div><div>which can be dd'ed onto a 4GB USB stick. This stick loads tiny core linux, which in turn formats, and loads a hard disk (blank, or disposable, of 500-1000GB). </div><div><br></div><div>Documentation for this process is started at <a href="https://github.com/georgejhunt/installer" target="_blank">https://github.com/georgejhunt/installer</a>.</div><div><br><div>How important is Centos? I'm not sure. I have a lot more personal experience with small deployments, low power, where bureaucratic risk reduction logic is not much of a factor. But I can see "enterprise strength" and long support cycles factoring into some people's decisions.</div><div><br></div><div>In the long run, I think we should be a big tent, and satisfy as many requirements as we can. Sometime I loose faith in my capability.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org" target="_blank">http://unleashkids.org</a> !</div></div>
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