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

2011-01-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Is that because the wlan card does not support hostap (I haven't > verified this)? Correct. We have experimental kernel patches + firmware for this but they are very *very* green. > What if the card simply ran in ad-hoc mode? It might > supp

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

2011-01-27 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> Sorry about the delayed response (school is back in session), but can >> I assume that XS 0.7 will run on a XO 1.5? > > Definitely on the wishlist, but not a given. Even if it does, o

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

2011-01-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Sorry about the delayed response (school is back in session), but can > I assume that XS 0.7 will run on a XO 1.5? Definitely on the wishlist, but not a given. Even if it does, one of the desired features is very unlikely to happen: "use the

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

2011-01-27 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:29 AM, 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

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

2011-01-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:12 AM, rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: > The Fedora 13 ARM port is intended to be a complete a port as possible and > should have the bits required as a base for the XS. Excellent news! > I hope you keep the Fedora RPMs as RHEL6/CentOS6 do not support ARM. My sincere hope

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

2011-01-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Martin Langhoff 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...? Thanks for the idea

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

2011-01-19 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: >> Anaconda will not automatically find the old install if its older than >> release-2, you will need to pass upgradeany at the boot prompt if you go >> with F14. > > Good point -- thank

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 wrote: > > 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. Sticking to

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 Fedora

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 Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 20:28 +, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 18 January 2011 19:29, Martin Langhoff 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 hea

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 o

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
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:31 PM, David Leeming 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 Islands Rural Link > >

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

2011-01-18 Thread David Leeming
Drake Sent: Wednesday, 19 January 2011 7:28 a.m. To: Martin Langhoff Cc: XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please... On 18 January 2011 19:29, Martin Langhoff wrote: > So -- going back on the traffic we've see in the last 24 months, what > would you high

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

2011-01-18 Thread Daniel Drake
On 18 January 2011 19:29, Martin Langhoff 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 items that spring to

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

[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