Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC School Server] Comment: "First Learnings about ARM"

George, The Dreamplug may not be the best device to use at the moment as I learnt 2 days ago that the board design has changed very recently and it will be a while until the required code changes are made in the mainline kernel code ( and the mainline u-boot code). I have emailed the maintaine

[Server-devel] Lesotho project network server: obstacles & needs

I work with a non-OLPC-affiliated XO laptop project in Lesotho. Our project uses G1G1 XO-1 laptops we buy on the open market and refurbish ourselves. Like David Leeming in PNG (see Server-devel Digest, Vol 60, Issue 13, Topic 1 -- Re: Looking for new low power server hardware candidate), I work

Re: [Server-devel] XS procurement recommendations (new hardware - Nosy Komba, Madagascar)

I like the Fitpc2i, which has two ethernet ports. I recently purchased one and would be happy to do whatever testing makes sense. (haven't yet purchased the sata drive though). I can atest to the 5 watts, idle. The blurb that came with it says it's capable of 2 watts standby, but we'd need to see

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC School Server] Comment: "First Learnings about ARM"

I need some pointers. My target machine is a Dreamplug. In the Fedora 17 arm distro, there are separate releases for ARMv5 and ARMv7. I have been playing with the ARMv5 download which includes kernels for tegra, imx, omap, and armv5tel (the latter is what I have been using). I created a FAT16 p

Re: [Server-devel] XS procurement recommendations (new hardware - Nosy Komba, Madagascar)

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Mitchell Seaton wrote: > Dear all XS Server devel's, > > The OLPC France team is looking to provide a new XS server machine for their > deployment in Nosy Komba. The current XS is not functional due to a current > failed disk (cause to be discovered). Myself, and A

Re: [Server-devel] XS procurement recommendations (new hardware - Nosy Komba, Madagascar)

Correction on that OLPC France link: http://olpc-france.org/ my bad. On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Mitchell Seaton wrote: > Dear all XS Server devel's, > > The OLPC France team is looking to provide a > new XS server machine for their deployment in Nosy > Komba

[Server-devel] XS procurement recommendations (new hardware - Nosy Komba, Madagascar)

Dear all XS Server devel's, The OLPC France team is looking to provide a new XS server machine for their deployment in Nosy Komba. The current XS is not functional due to a current failed disk (cause to be discovered). Myself, and