RE: 11.3.1 development build 26 for XO-1.75
Hi Martin, We have 13 machines passed the 24 hours runin test with OS26. 10 are 4G SKU and the others are 8G. Still have 3 8G machines doing the runin test. We confirmed this version fixed many issues as below: #11392, #11528, #11576, #11546, #11595, #11536, #10831, #10893, #11496, #11321 Will keep update the test results to you. Best Regards, －－－ WeiHeng Lin 林蔚恆 Notebook Business Unit 2 Software Design Division E-mail: weiheng@quantatw.com TEL:886-3-3272345 ext:13313 －－－ -Original Message- From: martin.langhoff.o...@gmail.com [mailto:martin.langhoff.o...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Martin Langhoff Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:37 AM To: OLPC Tech Team; Wei-Heng Lin (林蔚恆); Chia-Hsiu Chang (張嘉修); Eddie Tsai ( 蔡豐吉 ); Mars Chang(張嘉文); Devel List Subject: 11.3.1 development build 26 for XO-1.75 This build merges kernel 3.0.17 (which reworks the MMC layer), and includes fixes in EC communication, audio recording playback, WLAN during suspend/resume and serial port driver. It also downgrades some graphics libraries back to OS24 versions. Notes: - Under GNOME we have a new cursor theme that looks much better. - Thanks to the suspend/resume WLAN fixes, this build has aggressive suspend resume enabled under normal usage. The resume path is still a bit slow, but generally works. - Wake-on-LAN is not yet working -- WLAN stays associated to an access point during SoC sleep, but will not wake to a ping or tcp connection. Download from: http://build.laptop.org/11.3.1/os26/ Fixes (please help us confirm): #11392 XO-1.75 kernel turns off WLAN during suspend/resume #11510 Libertas device loses wireless extensions after suspend/resume cycle #11528 XO-1.75 os18 runin: read-only filesystem mmcblk0: error -110 sending SET_BLOCK_COUNT command, response 0x0, card status 0x0 #11576 XO-1.75 C1 os24 RUNIN fail, static progress, mmcblk0: error -110 sending SET_BLOCK_COUNT command, response 0x0, card status 0x400d00 #11546 Record activity cannot record audio 11.3.1 os19 #11515 XO-1.75 record activity hangs X and keyboard in seconds if rotate key pressed #11595 XO-1.75 camera missing after boot, rarely --- os25/xo1.75/os25.packages.txt 2012-01-19 08:55:48.0 -0500 +++ os26/xo1.75/os26.packages.txt 2012-01-30 13:11:06.0 -0500 +cursors-adwaita2b-3.0.2.2-1.fc16.noarch -kernel-3.0.0_xo1.75-20120118.1854.olpc.b2845e6.armv7l +kernel-3.0.17_xo1.75-20120127.1639.olpc.61e0e9e.armv7l -libX11-1.4.3-1.olpc.armv5tel -libX11-common-1.4.3-1.olpc.noarch +libX11-1.3.4-4.fc14.armv5tel +libX11-common-1.3.4-4.fc14.noarch -libxcb-1.7-3.olpc.armv5tel +libxcb-1.7-1.fc14.armv5tel -olpc-firmware-q4c12-1.unsigned.noarch +olpc-firmware-q4d02-1.unsigned.noarch -olpc-runin-tests-0.17.1-1.armv7l +olpc-runin-tests-0.17.3-1.armv7l cheers, m -- mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [IAEP] [x-post] GNU Project renews focus on free software in education
http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=pressarticle=20090918language=english#20090918 This followed uninformed misstatements in the media at the time by some FSF members. FSF influence on K-8 education departments is minimal, but I agree more can always be done. We need to be in touch with Dora. Most FSF people I know think high school or university when the topic is educational software; e.g. FSFE edu-eu mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-eu) Sean On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Brilliant! What can we do to have Sugar more formally recognised by the FSF? I think it should be their desktop of choice for primary school education. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia On 31 January 2012 23:28, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.com wrote: Hi, Just received a message on the fsf-info list about FSF relaunching the GNU education project: Links: [1] http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-education-website-relaunch [blog post] [2] http://www.gnu.org/education/ [GNU Education website] -- Anish * * * BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Monday, January 30, 2012 -- The GNU Project today announced the relaunch of its worldwide volunteer-led effort to bring free software to educational institutions of all levels. The new effort is based at http://www.gnu.org/education. The newly formed GNU Education Team is being led by Dora Scilipoti, an Italian free software activist and teacher. Under her leadership, the Team has developed a list of specific goals to guide their work: Present cases of educational institutions around the world who are successfully using and teaching free software. Show examples of how free programs are being used by educational institutions to improve the learning and teaching processes. Publish articles on the various aspects involved in the use of free software by educational institutions. Maintain a dialogue with teachers, students and administrators of educational institutions to listen to their difficulties and provide support. Keep in contact with other groups around the world committed to the promotion of free software in education. GNU and its host organization, the Free Software Foundation (FSF), emphasize that free software principles are a prerequisite for any educational environment that uses computers: Educational institutions of all levels should use and teach free software because it is the only software that allows them to accomplish their essential missions: to disseminate human knowledge and to prepare students to be good members of their community. The source code and the methods of free software are part of human knowledge. On the contrary, proprietary software is secret, restricted knowledge, which is the opposite of the mission of educational institutions. Free software supports education, proprietary software forbids education. In an article at http://fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-education-website-relaunch, Scilipoti adds insights about the project's organizing philosophy, current contributors, and progress so far. Of her basic motivation for being involved, she says, As a free software advocate and a teacher, I always felt that the GNU Project needed to address the subject specifically and in depth, for it is in the education field that its ethical principles find the most fertile ground for achieving the goal of building a better society. In her article, Scilipoti also highlights some of the free software success stories from around the world, especially Kerala, India, where the government has migrated over 2,600 of its public schools to free software. While the Education Team has already compiled a collection of useful materials, they are also looking for more volunteer contributors. People who want to help, or who have information about instructive examples of existing use of free software in schools, should contact educat...@gnu.org. Education really is one of the most fundamental areas we need to focus on to achieve real social change, said Free Software Foundation executive director John Sullivan. We need to be acknowledging and assisting schools that are doing the right thing, and helping those who aren't yet on board understand why those giveaway Microsoft Office, iPad, and Kindle deals aren't so great for classrooms after all. We're very thankful to all of the Team members for stepping up to meet this challenge. I hope others will be inspired by their work and join the effort. The Education Team has also been working closely with GNU's Translation Team to make the new materials available in as many languages as possible. People interested in helping with the translation component of the project should see the information at http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/README.translations.html. About the Free Software Foundation The Free Software
Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management
On 01/31/2012 11:43 PM, Paul Fox wrote: sridhar wrote: We are considering disabling Automatic Power Management because of its impact on collaboration and 3G connectivity. What kind of battery life can we expect from an XO-1.5 with Automatic Power Management disabled as opposed to enabled? I understand that this can vary wildly with usage, but is there an average estimate? he's on a very long plane flight, but i'll try and channel richard: it depends. how did i do? :-) You have learned well. Sirdhar: Unfortunately theres no way we can answer your question ( or even make a SWAG) without known how much idleness is in your normal workload. Automatic Power Management only makes a big difference if there is a lot of time spent idle. If you are running Tam-Tam the entire time then turning off aggressive suspend/resume will make zero difference. powerd tracks this though so if you can collect some powerd logs from some of your users then we can make a guess at figuring out what your impact will be. powerd logs are located in the ~olcp/power-logs directory. Copy all the files in there off of several machines that have been used in the classroom and send them to me and we can take a look at what sort of profile you have. What build are you basing your images off of? -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management
On 1 February 2012 16:09, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: On 1 Feb 2012, at 04:43, Paul Fox wrote: would it help to disable automatic power management only when specific Activities are running? only when certain kinds of collaboration are in effect? only when certain drivers are active? Thanks Paul, yes excellent point. With my Activity Team hat on, Sridhar if you could please expand a little on the test cases you are hitting Activity collaboration issues with, so that we can try and resolve or minimise issue from Automatic Power Management kicking in. There are already a number of Activities that programatically keep the machine awake – a simple example is Clock, who wants the clock display to continuously keep stopping as if there's sand stuck in the gears ;) We've found it really difficult to diagnose and replicate reliably - the problems can be random. I made an OLPC bug report [1], which is also in our tracker [2]. The workaround for us (and several other deployments, I hear) is to disable automatic power management. I didn't realise that activities could suspend power management. How does this work, and which activities use it? We see problems with just about any activity that engages in collaboration. Maybe it should be standard to suspend power management for any collaboration session? That would be smarter than turning it off entirely. Sridhar [1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10878 [2] https://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/636 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Maybe it should be standard to suspend power management for any collaboration session? That would be smarter than turning it off entirely. I'd be supportive of a patch that does that. Simon, given the collaboration API in 11.2.x, would it be possible to keep a file in existence all the while that a collaboration session exists? cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
openhatch
I was wondering how many of you have looked at http://openhatch.org as a way to bring in new volunteers, and provide mentorship. We had Asheesh Laroia of OpenHatch on campus today, talking about the project, its approach and how they pull from various bug trackers including Sugarlabs. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management
On 02/01/2012 08:32 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Maybe it should be standard to suspend power management for any collaboration session? That would be smarter than turning it off entirely. I'd be supportive of a patch that does that. Simon, given the collaboration API in 11.2.x, would it be possible to keep a file in existence all the while that a collaboration session exists? While I understand the frustration, this is going to wrong direction. We need to hunt down the problems and fix them. Its a good short term fix to be enabled on a per-deployment basis but if this becomes the default then I worry all our work on making aggressive suspend/resume work will begin to fade away because its never active. -- Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org One Laptop per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management
Sridhar - I agree with Richard's concern about finding the problem. Have you tried to differentiate between problems with collaboration and problems with networking in general? Have you tried different 3G modems and seen different results? I'm just a little skeptical about assuming we know where the problems lie when we haven't actually identified them yet. - Ed On Feb 1, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 1 February 2012 16:09, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: On 1 Feb 2012, at 04:43, Paul Fox wrote: would it help to disable automatic power management only when specific Activities are running? only when certain kinds of collaboration are in effect? only when certain drivers are active? Thanks Paul, yes excellent point. With my Activity Team hat on, Sridhar if you could please expand a little on the test cases you are hitting Activity collaboration issues with, so that we can try and resolve or minimise issue from Automatic Power Management kicking in. There are already a number of Activities that programatically keep the machine awake – a simple example is Clock, who wants the clock display to continuously keep stopping as if there's sand stuck in the gears ;) We've found it really difficult to diagnose and replicate reliably - the problems can be random. I made an OLPC bug report [1], which is also in our tracker [2]. The workaround for us (and several other deployments, I hear) is to disable automatic power management. I didn't realise that activities could suspend power management. How does this work, and which activities use it? We see problems with just about any activity that engages in collaboration. Maybe it should be standard to suspend power management for any collaboration session? That would be smarter than turning it off entirely. Sridhar [1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10878 [2] https://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/636 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: openhatch
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I was wondering how many of you have looked at http://openhatch.org as a way to bring in new volunteers, and provide mentorship. We had Asheesh Laroia of OpenHatch on campus today, talking about the project, its approach and how they pull from various bug trackers including Sugarlabs. There is a Sugar project in there somewhere... -walter cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: While I understand the frustration, this is going to wrong direction. We need to hunt down the problems and fix them. I think we have the root problem well isolated -- dsd has done a good job of that. Getting it fixed is taking longer than we thought, and it got better, but not fixed, in the 11.x.y cycle. Our next stab at fixed is in the 12.1.0 timeframe, mid-2012. A workaround of this kind _is_ the right thing now for the 11.x.y platform. Let's _not_ include it in the development builds, so developers and testers suffer (and fix). end users need not suffer. m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management
On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 22:42 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Richard A. Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: While I understand the frustration, this is going to wrong direction. We need to hunt down the problems and fix them. I think we have the root problem well isolated -- dsd has done a good job of that. Getting it fixed is taking longer than we thought, and it got better, but not fixed, in the 11.x.y cycle. Our next stab at fixed is in the 12.1.0 timeframe, mid-2012. A workaround of this kind _is_ the right thing now for the 11.x.y platform. I like to keep OOB as close to upstream as possible, having customizations contained in separate files within OOB. I take it the correct way to disable this is to add a powered stanza to the OOB's ini file to override what is in powerd/defaults.ini? Or do I have to toggle the defaults.ini file? Jerry ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
RE: 11.3.1 development build 26 for XO-1.75
Dear Martin, We need your confirmation that will use OS26 for RAMP. Could you please reply the mail to us, thanks? Best Regards, －－－ WeiHeng Lin 林蔚恆 Notebook Business Unit 2 Software Design Division E-mail: weiheng@quantatw.com TEL:886-3-3272345 ext:13313 －－－ -Original Message- From: Wei-Heng Lin (林蔚恆) Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:07 PM To: 'Martin Langhoff'; OLPC Tech Team; Chia-Hsiu Chang (張嘉修); Eddie Tsai ( 蔡豐吉 ); Mars Chang(張嘉文); Devel List; Gary Su (蘇泓仁) Cc: Keith Tzeng (鄭期鴻) Subject: RE: 11.3.1 development build 26 for XO-1.75 Hi Martin, We have 13 machines passed the 24 hours runin test with OS26. 10 are 4G SKU and the others are 8G. Still have 3 8G machines doing the runin test. We confirmed this version fixed many issues as below: #11392, #11528, #11576, #11546, #11595, #11536, #10831, #10893, #11496, #11321 Will keep update the test results to you. Best Regards, －－－ WeiHeng Lin 林蔚恆 Notebook Business Unit 2 Software Design Division E-mail: weiheng@quantatw.com TEL:886-3-3272345 ext:13313 －－－ -Original Message- From: martin.langhoff.o...@gmail.com [mailto:martin.langhoff.o...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Martin Langhoff Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:37 AM To: OLPC Tech Team; Wei-Heng Lin (林蔚恆); Chia-Hsiu Chang (張嘉修); Eddie Tsai ( 蔡豐吉 ); Mars Chang(張嘉文); Devel List Subject: 11.3.1 development build 26 for XO-1.75 This build merges kernel 3.0.17 (which reworks the MMC layer), and includes fixes in EC communication, audio recording playback, WLAN during suspend/resume and serial port driver. It also downgrades some graphics libraries back to OS24 versions. Notes: - Under GNOME we have a new cursor theme that looks much better. - Thanks to the suspend/resume WLAN fixes, this build has aggressive suspend resume enabled under normal usage. The resume path is still a bit slow, but generally works. - Wake-on-LAN is not yet working -- WLAN stays associated to an access point during SoC sleep, but will not wake to a ping or tcp connection. Download from: http://build.laptop.org/11.3.1/os26/ Fixes (please help us confirm): #11392 XO-1.75 kernel turns off WLAN during suspend/resume #11510 Libertas device loses wireless extensions after suspend/resume cycle #11528 XO-1.75 os18 runin: read-only filesystem mmcblk0: error -110 sending SET_BLOCK_COUNT command, response 0x0, card status 0x0 #11576 XO-1.75 C1 os24 RUNIN fail, static progress, mmcblk0: error -110 sending SET_BLOCK_COUNT command, response 0x0, card status 0x400d00 #11546 Record activity cannot record audio 11.3.1 os19 #11515 XO-1.75 record activity hangs X and keyboard in seconds if rotate key pressed #11595 XO-1.75 camera missing after boot, rarely --- os25/xo1.75/os25.packages.txt 2012-01-19 08:55:48.0 -0500 +++ os26/xo1.75/os26.packages.txt 2012-01-30 13:11:06.0 -0500 +cursors-adwaita2b-3.0.2.2-1.fc16.noarch -kernel-3.0.0_xo1.75-20120118.1854.olpc.b2845e6.armv7l +kernel-3.0.17_xo1.75-20120127.1639.olpc.61e0e9e.armv7l -libX11-1.4.3-1.olpc.armv5tel -libX11-common-1.4.3-1.olpc.noarch +libX11-1.3.4-4.fc14.armv5tel +libX11-common-1.3.4-4.fc14.noarch -libxcb-1.7-3.olpc.armv5tel +libxcb-1.7-1.fc14.armv5tel -olpc-firmware-q4c12-1.unsigned.noarch +olpc-firmware-q4d02-1.unsigned.noarch -olpc-runin-tests-0.17.1-1.armv7l +olpc-runin-tests-0.17.3-1.armv7l cheers, m -- mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: I like to keep OOB as close to upstream as possible, having OOB already has a module to do this: powerd. Take a peek at the XO-1 configs provided, which already disable this. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Notes on touchpad testing @ wiki
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Touchpad_testing m -- mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] openVPN on the XS
Hi Sameer Here in Nicaragua at Fundación Zamora Terán, we are using openVPN on XS in client mode, and the openVPN Server is on the main office on a Centos 5.7 server, because on some school we have a 3G Modem Connection behind a proxy server at ISP, with the VPN tunnel, we can access on to XS by ssh and put content, monitoring the XS with Nagios. And also we redirect the all dns queries on this way: 1. XO(172.18.96.1) 2. XS(172.18.0.1)-(10.8.0.11) 3. openVPNServer(10.8.0.1) 4. openDNS(208.67.222.222) For now that is the way that we use openVPN with XS. Regards -- German R S On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Hello Serverheads! We've been using openVPN on the XS in India (http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com) and Jamaica (http://olpcjamaica.org.jm). OpenVPN runs in client mode on the XS and phones home to public IP server. We have a couple of laptops with appropriate keys that also run in the client mode. openVPN runs on the server in server mode. This setup allows us to ssh into the XS from the two client laptops whenever the servers get online via DSL or GPRS/3G. openVPN takes care of the whole NAT business nicely. I know that George Hunt was trying to do this in Haiti. Not sure how far he got. We also got a suggestion to look into IPv6 tunnels (http://www.sixxs.net/tools/ayiya/). 1) Is anyone else using something like this or similar? 2) Is there a different approach to doing the same? I can put up the instructions on the wiki in a bit. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- German R S ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts
Hi, You can try the work done by Alsroot: http://gitorious.paraguayeduca.org/paraguayeduca-server is based on Ubuntu server. Regards, Carlos 2012/2/1 Abhishek Singh abhishek.si...@olenepal.org: On 02/01/2012 01:15 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, Like others, I'm interested in moving the XS to a newer OS base. My key motivation for this is that the Foundation Zamora Teran (OLPC Nicaragua) is having difficulty buying servers for new schools being added to the project - Fedora 9 is too old to support this hardware. For the next XS release, Martin suggests that CentOS 6.2 (or another RHEL equivalent) is used as a base. As my contribution here will likely be limited to just this rebase, I'm prepared to accept that preference. However, having installed/run CentOS 6.2 for the first time I now have my doubts about this. I installed it on a server where the network interface does not appear with F9 (but does work with more recent Fedora). With CentOS, the same problem as F9 is presented: no network adapter. Digging further, I see that support was added to the Linux kernel for this particular network adapter (Atheros AR8152) on February 16th, 2010. However, since CentOS 6.2 uses a kernel from 2009, it does not support this hardware. This seems excessively old for a distro that was released in December 2011, and I imagine that we will see many such problems if we run with this. With this in mind, is there still a strong preference to go with CentOS, or would a more recent Fedora (e.g. 16/17?) be a better choice? Thanks, Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel Hi Daniel, Moving to CentOS or some enterprise Linux makes sense for rebasing XS on but given the limitations with hardware compatibility, this might be a blocker. New hardware are being used at deployments so probably we might have to stick with newer versions of Fedora. -- Abhishek Singh System Engineer Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal साझा शिक्षा ई-पाटी http://www.olenepal.org Tel: +977-1-551 ext. 102 ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- Carlos Daniel Garay Departamento de Tecnología, Paraguay Educa. ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] openVPN on the XS
Hi Sameer, Yes, Adam Holt and I worked together to use multiple clients. I found that Amazon makes available a free year of a micro installation of OpenVPN Access Server. After the first year, it looks to cost on the order of $20 per year. George On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Hello Serverheads! We've been using openVPN on the XS in India (http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com) and Jamaica (http://olpcjamaica.org.jm). OpenVPN runs in client mode on the XS and phones home to public IP server. We have a couple of laptops with appropriate keys that also run in the client mode. openVPN runs on the server in server mode. This setup allows us to ssh into the XS from the two client laptops whenever the servers get online via DSL or GPRS/3G. openVPN takes care of the whole NAT business nicely. I know that George Hunt was trying to do this in Haiti. Not sure how far he got. We also got a suggestion to look into IPv6 tunnels (http://www.sixxs.net/tools/ayiya/). 1) Is anyone else using something like this or similar? 2) Is there a different approach to doing the same? I can put up the instructions on the wiki in a bit. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
