[Server-devel] Soliciting Test scripts for remote XS assistance, and my education

2012-02-28 Thread George Hunt
Hi everyone, Recently, I tried to help a person in the Philippines to get an XS up and running. I wasn't happy with the inefficiency of question-answer via email, even to get the most basic information. I would like to set up a git repository at laptop.org where we can all contribute our useful

[Server-devel] A quick networking question

2012-02-28 Thread George Hunt
Hi, In Haiti, Adam and I have been trying to get a school server online. We're finding that volunteers are going through the school server to the internet with their laptops, and he wants to turn that off, at least for now. I've turned off /proc/net...ip_forward and verified that there is no

[Server-devel] Sources for XS RPM's need a consistent home and/or definitive script

2012-02-08 Thread George Hunt
Hi Daniel, et al, Perhaps, after the push is over, I'd like to see posted in some public place, a script to fetch all of the sources for the RPM's that make up the new XS. I say this because as I was trying to recreate XS-0.6, i became confused whether sources were at

Re: [Server-devel] openVPN on the XS

2012-02-01 Thread George Hunt
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

Re: [Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-01-31 Thread George Hunt
knowledge to bear on my crazy ideas. If you have thoughts, shortcuts, code to do XS rpmbuilds, and ideas on testing, both would be necessary, and useful. George On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 21:28 -0500, George Hunt wrote: Thanks Jerry

Re: [Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-01-31 Thread George Hunt
wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, George Hunt georgejh...@gmail.com wrote: I met Tony Anderson in Haiti, and again at the San Francisco OLPC Summit in late 2011. He prevailed upon me to spend some time trying to figure out how to rebase XS on a more recent Fedora Core. Yesterday I

[Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-01-30 Thread George Hunt
Hi everyone, I'm new to this list. I met Tony Anderson in Haiti, and again at the San Francisco OLPC Summit in late 2011. He prevailed upon me to spend some time trying to figure out how to rebase XS on a more recent Fedora Core. I just recently used pungi to gather together FC16 rpms into an

Re: [Server-devel] Who wrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Install_Server?

2012-01-30 Thread George Hunt
Vonau wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 12:40 -0500, George Hunt wrote: Hi everyone, I'm new to this list. Hi George: I'm the author of the XSAU-F11 based rework of the XS that Sridhar is referring to. I met Tony Anderson in Haiti, and again at the San Francisco OLPC

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