On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 18:52 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> If we are having a regular XS meeting, I also have to consider what we >> are doing targetting all our other deployments, some of them with >> thousands of servers :-) > > Absolutely. We may be a small deployment but our work can benefit much > larger deployments.
Small deployment *and* your expert hands at work. Fantastic >> WRT 3 one thing that would be great is an exporter from the fedora >> repo to a static representation, or to something we can search & serve >> easily, so we don't have to carry the fedora sw itself on the XS. I've >> worked a bit with it, and while usually the repos hosted in it have >> content that is _gold_, I don't think the sw itself adds any value on >> the XS. > > The great thing about the fedora-commons software is the search > functionality. Could we actually use search on a static representation > of the fedora-commons repository? Well, that's exactly my thought. If we can get a static export from it, I'm sure we can feed it into a lightweight search system. Bringing in all the dependencies for Fedora, and agreeing to the memory and cpu footprint is not in my list of things to do. > The teachers aren't using their XO's as much as we would like them too. > We are looking for applications that will appeal directly to them and > compel them to use their XO's more frequently. We think e-mail is one > such application. It's a reasonable thing to want, I was worried about kids + email. Doing it without future upgrade conflicts on the XS will be a bit of a challenge. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
