Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final

2009-03-08 Thread Jacob Haddon
I am confused, forgive me. Why are you running smoke tests if it is a final release? -j Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:02:58 +0100 From: Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final Release To: Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final

2009-03-08 Thread Walter Bender
Sucrose-0.84 is the Sugar release; Sugar on a Stick is Sugar plus, in this case, a Fedora LiveUSB image. -walter 2009/3/8 Jacob Haddon tha...@yahoo.com: I am confused, forgive me. Why are you running smoke tests if it is a final release? -j Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:02:58 +0100 From:

Removing perl from the build

2009-03-08 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Chris, I've gone through what's been pulling in the perl dependency and narrowed down the packages that are dependant on it to the following list. There's a number of easy fix ones and two that I need to dig further on. The first four should be a matter of just blocking them out of the

Re: Google summer of Code?

2009-03-08 Thread Jameson Quinn
Marco gave the link, but I'd just like to repeat that Sugarlabs will be applying to GSoC this year, independently of OLPC. The two organizations have talked about doing some coordinating behind the scenes, passing off student applications that are better done by the other organization. No definite

Announcing GuruFest: Come hear from OLPC experts, kicking off this Friday with Mel Chua

2009-03-08 Thread Colin Zwiebel
gurufest_logo_and_text_draftv2_09.png Starting this Friday, the Olin College http://olin.edu OLPC Chapter is kicking off GuruFest. We are fortunate enough to have several several OLPC experts lined up to give lectures/lessons to our OLPC chapter. We would like to open this event to the OLPC

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: But 200-300 users could be online at once. I think it will be too complicated to tell some of them: Don't connect to the AP right now, you may overwhelm ejabberd Give ejabberd enough RAM and it won't be a problem. The rest

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-08 Thread Bryan Berry
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 22:36 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: But 200-300 users could be online at once. I think it will be too complicated to tell some of them: Don't connect to the AP right now, you may overwhelm ejabberd

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-08 Thread Dev Mohanty
Bryan I assume, this is in reference with the deployment planned at the new schools, and guess am more then familiar with admin workload and power limitations you happen to mention in Nepal. Hence was wondering if you've looked into the option of using more then one XS, installed at the same

[Server-devel] XO's get bogged down w/ chatter (was Re: Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS )

2009-03-08 Thread Bryan Berry
I just want to reiterate the following because I have gotten several e-mails suggesting solutions to scaling the XS. The Dell server handles this problem fine. I expect the MSI wind PC will handle it fine as well. The problem is w/ the ___XO's___ NOT the servers. It is hard for the XO's to keep

[Server-devel] Wireless Cards in the School Server

2009-03-08 Thread Xavier Ziemba
I've been working on configuring an XS server for the Cambridge Friends School in Massachusetts and have a couple of questions regarding wireless networking and the XS server. Does the XS software support automatic configuration of PCI wireless cards within the server itself? The documentation

Re: [Server-devel] Wireless Cards in the School Server

2009-03-08 Thread Dev Mohanty
Hi Xavier, You could also look up the archive at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/networking/ Guess hasn't been very active lately, but then has plenty of info and reference to the wiki. Should get you started and help you with most of your queries. Cheers, Dev On 3/8/09, Xavier Ziemba