Re: [Server-devel] Meshnode product...

2009-06-17 Thread s . boutayeb
Selon Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de: On 06/15/2009 10:15 AM, Sean DALY wrote: Thanks for that Sameer I'm sure that color scheme isn't accidental :-) They say it's Debian-based Simon - Do you think it would be useful or interesting to borrow one of these for LinuxTag? Could

Re: [Server-devel] small form factor XS options?

2008-11-26 Thread s . boutayeb
Hi Bryan, That's exactly what we are looking for, here at OLPC France: that is compact, rugged and low power hardware platforms! Note that it's a work in progress! So far, we experimented bit 3 targets: * the Bubba Two server: powered by a PowerPC/Freescale processor, from Excito (Sverige)

Re: [Server-devel] Ubuntu XS

2008-08-17 Thread s . boutayeb
Hi all, One more argument for a debian based XS: Debian supports various non-x86 architectures, which are good candidates for a compact, affordable, and low power XS server: - The mipsel based fuloong mini ( http://www.lemote.com/english/fuloong.html ) engineered by the chinese Jiangsu Lemote

Re: [Server-devel] VPN server for our project

2008-07-02 Thread s . boutayeb
Selon Marten Vijn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:16 +0200, Marten Vijn wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 15:40 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question: has anyone experimented the fonction of a VPN network involving remote XS servers ? I use openvpn, works

[Server-devel] VPN server for our project

2008-07-01 Thread s . boutayeb
Hi, OLPC France is plannig a project Windrose (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/WindroseOLPC ) consisting for the schools among the world participating in the project to share and publish their contents (text, images, videos, etc.) in a semi-private BLOG (likely EduBlogger). My question: has

Re: [Server-devel] Ultra Mobile XO Server

2008-06-23 Thread s . boutayeb
Hi John, Thank you for your comments. The helped me to formalize further the analyse of the usage cases and the options to be considered. Glad to see that there is a need for this experiment. We want to offer an option in the deployments where the energy and the cost are impeding factors for the

Re: [Server-devel] Ultra Mobile XO Server

2008-06-23 Thread s . boutayeb
Hi Martin, Thank you for your useful comments! On the software side, we will certainly integrate in this project important components such as the Moodle server, thus allowing the teachers/administrators to monitor and manage the whole class easier. Best regards Samy Selon Martin Langhoff

[Server-devel] VPN server for our project

2008-06-22 Thread s . boutayeb
Hi, OLPC France is plannig a project Windrose (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/WindroseOLPC ) consisting for the schools among the world participating in the project to share and publish their contents (text, images, videos, etc.) in a semi-private BLOG (likely EduBlogger). My question: has

Re: [Server-devel] VPN server for our project

2008-06-22 Thread s . boutayeb
Selon James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've tested PPTP and OpenVPN on XO. Works fine. The PPP MPPE module is already present (drivers/net/ppp_mppe.ko). Using a VPN adds overhead to the network communication. Isn't as secure as you might think. Yes, we should find out the right balance