[Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
Ay ay ay! This last 12 months have been frantic, as I've ended up biting off a ton more than common sense would recommend to chew. And then chewing, slowly, awkwardly. Good things have come out of the hard work of this year, but the XS has been delayed. One good piece of news is that I've helped

Re: [Server-devel] Notes on Flashing the NAND over the LAN

2011-01-18 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: With the release of 10.1.3, I thought I'd revisit flashing an XO over the LAN.  Here are my notes, if anyone's interested. Interesting! For a full reflash, as James pointed out, NANDBlaster wins. But if you have laptops out there

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 14:29 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: Ay ay ay! This last 12 months have been frantic, as I've ended up biting off a ton more than common sense would recommend to chew. And then chewing, slowly, awkwardly. Good things have come out of the hard work of this year, but the

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On 18 January 2011 19:29, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: So -- going back on the traffic we've see in the last 24 months, what would you highlight? What have people asked for (that wasn't easy/trivial/possible)? What problems have we heard that were hard to diagnose...? Some

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread David Leeming
Great news, looking forwards to 0.7 I think three areas where we had some difficulties. 1. Perhaps making the default install easier to set eth0 up for static config 2. Not sure if it is relevant to the build, but we would have enjoyed an easy way to clone from a master, i.e. when setting up a

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Anna
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:31 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: I have never tried selecting the Gnome option, but a nice GUI would be useful for users with limited grasp of command line stuff for file management. Maybe that is available already David Leeming Solomon

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread David Leeming
OK point taken! We have used WinSCP on networked Windows PCs too, for this purpose. David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link From: Anna [mailto:ascho...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 19 January 2011 10:11 a.m. To: David Leeming Cc: XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Anna
Reporting mechanisms would be useful, such as: Squid reporting for the locations with internet access. I've played around with sarg for ad-hoc reports, which really came in handy when I got claims that the internet doesn't work. Not only is it up, but here's what folks are looking at. On an

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 20:28 +, Daniel Drake wrote: On 18 January 2011 19:29, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: So -- going back on the traffic we've see in the last 24 months, what would you highlight? What have people asked for (that wasn't easy/trivial/possible)? What

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread David Leeming
Even if a location doesn't have internet access, daily reporting of the number of unique XOs that got IP addresses would probably be informative. At least you'd have a quick way to see how many XOs are being brought to school and be able to track that over time. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
Martin, I was about to email you regarding what is the latest XS version as I am about to get back to attempting to port the XS to ARM so your email is timely to me. I had put that on hold for quite a while as it turned out Fedora ARM 11/12 lacked a number of items required by the XS. The

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-18 Thread Anna
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:12 PM, rihowa...@gmail.com rihowa...@gmail.comwrote: In closing I would like to say, I do not think most administrators would care about RHEL6 or CentOS. In fact they may prefer the modern up to date Fedora 14 features. Thanks rihowa...@gmail.com Seconded.