Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread George Hunt
When I took the picture in the following url, I was focusing on what it would take to run off of 12V deep cycle battery: http://schoolserver.wordpress.com/xs-installation/xs-0-7-running-on-xo-1-5/ I'm concerned with packaging, and physical robustness in a real school setting. Maybe we could

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread James Cameron
G'day George, The trouble with a full mechanical engineering treatment of this is that there's no telling what size each of the parts will be. For something similar I used a kitchen vegetable rack. This is a plastic shelf, with feet, with a square grid pattern. It is often used for potatos and

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Abhishek Singh
On 04/11/2012 04:52 PM, James Cameron wrote: G'day George, The trouble with a full mechanical engineering treatment of this is that there's no telling what size each of the parts will be. For something similar I used a kitchen vegetable rack. This is a plastic shelf, with feet, with a

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:55 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Why not an XO-1.75 ? Good point. And XO + AP + HDD would work fantastic. George, how many users per server? If 100, an XO-1.75 will do ok. Want to sign up for the Contributors Programme (search in the wiki for the URL).

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:55 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Why not an XO-1.75 ? Good point. And XO + AP + HDD would work fantastic. George, how many users per server? If 100, an XO-1.75 will do

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:29 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: When I took the picture in the following url, I was focusing on what it would take to run off of 12V deep cycle battery: http://schoolserver.wordpress.com/xs-installation/xs-0-7-running-on-xo-1-5/ That's very cool!

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
On Apr 10, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be pressed into service in a classroom situation. So now I'm in the market for another toy.

[Server-devel] XS on ARM update.

2012-04-11 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
Martin, I have been meaning to email you an update about XS on ARM for a while. I had to take a hiatus from what I was doing with it, but started back on it a while back. I had been experimenting with getting XS components running on ARM. That was with Fedora 13 for ARM. With Fedora 13 for ARM

Re: [Server-devel] XS on ARM update.

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:13 PM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: I have been meaning to email you an update about XS on ARM for a while. I had to take a hiatus from what I was doing with it, but started back on it a while back. Great that you're back on track. True, Fedora

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 11 April 2012 22:59, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:29 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I think it was Sameer who was telling me that in Australia, they are thinking about one XS per classroom. In that setting, seems to me that XO1.75

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Why is it such a bad idea? The thought was to do away with registration, moodle and other unnecessary services and focus only on the XMPP server. You want to run a network of federated XMPP servers? It's