Freedombox = XS + privacy Hmmm....
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:55 AM, William Gardella <[email protected]> wrote: > There was a discussion last week of the One Laptop Per Child XO-1 and > its mesh networking capabilities, but an aspect of the OLPC project that > might be even more interesting to Freedomboxers is the "school servers," > also known as XSes. The operating system and toolset for the XSes aims > to provide a surprisingly similar feature set to some of the things that > get discussed for the Freedombox: > > - Being easy(ish) to administer for non-technical people, important for > a school deployment in places where having a dedicated sysadmin is > pretty unlikely > > - Encouraging good security practices (instructor and student PCs always > use public-key authentication to communicate with the server, never > just user name and password; the admin interface for the XS itself > uses one-time pads) > > - Acting as a NAS for the student machines > > - Acting as an internet gateway and caching Web proxy for wireless mesh > networks > > - Providing a web server and content management system > > - Providing a Jabber server for collaborative work (on the XS, this is a > heavily patched Ejabberd that allows XOs to share school activities > via Telepathy when out of mesh range) > > - Being suitable for relatively low-power, modestly specced systems > (OLPC schools in areas with poor electrification have used fanless > low-watt boxes like the Aleutia T1 and netbooks like the first > generation Eeepc as school servers) > > It's pretty tightly integrated into Sugar, the XO operating environment, > and of course the installation images are Fedora-based, but the XS might > be an interesting basis for comparison and discussion for some of the > capabilities we want the Freedombox to have. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > -- Best Regards. This is unedited. P-) _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
