Re: [Server-devel] Clarifying some XSCE issues.

2013-08-12 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 04:34:08PM -0500, David Farning wrote: After a couple of eventful, and fruitful, weeks with XSCE, I would like to to clarify a few points where our message seemed to be unclear. -- Emphasis on small deployments. As a community, there is currently an emphasis towards

Re: [Server-devel] Questions for today

2013-08-12 Thread James Cameron
I like Sugar Network, because the problem of content sharing is examined from a top down design perspective, including the constraint that internet connectivity might not be available, or it may be intermittent. On the other hand, the two School Server projects (XS and XSCE) seem to be bottom up

Re: [Server-devel] Clarifying some XSCE issues.

2013-08-12 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:18 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 04:34:08PM -0500, David Farning wrote: After a couple of eventful, and fruitful, weeks with XSCE, I would like to to clarify a few points where our message seemed to be unclear. -- Emphasis on

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Root fs on XO1

2013-08-12 Thread George Hunt
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:49 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Rather, I guess that our dracut-modules-olpc package simply hasn't got scripted support for swinging the kernel over to a root filesystem on the SD card on XO-1. http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/dracut-modules-olpc/

[Server-devel] last minute requests for XSCE 0.4 RC1?

2013-08-12 Thread Adam Holt
Release is anticipated this Thursday -- so Anna Schoolfield many others can bang on it -- in short, please shout now if something's unclear! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/0.4/Road_Map George updated the spec Saturday, but others should chime in if there's something missing /

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Root fs on XO1

2013-08-12 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:44:58AM -0400, George Hunt wrote: I was really fortunate, in my testing yesterday.  I happened to have a USB ethernet dongle, and a 5v tplink 3020 wifi unit attached when I started testing.  The WD disk did not spin up.  I removed the ethernet and wifi loads, and it

[Server-devel] Peering into Journal Data

2013-08-12 Thread Sameer Verma
Some of you may find this useful. This was written by Leotis Buchanan (cc'd) for OLPC Jamaica projects. We use it to collect metadata from the Journal entries at the pilot schools. See blog post for details: http://184.106.206.200/commons/blog/peering-journal-data The script is under GPLv3 on