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You can try the work done by Alsroot: http://gitorious.paraguayeduca.org/paraguayeduca-server is based on Ubuntu server. Regards, Carlos 2012/2/1 Abhishek Singh <abhishek.si...@olenepal.org>: > On 02/01/2012 01:15 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Like others, I'm interested in moving the XS to a newer OS base. My >> key motivation for this is that the Foundation Zamora Teran (OLPC >> Nicaragua) is having difficulty buying servers for new schools being >> added to the project - Fedora 9 is too old to support this hardware. >> >> For the next XS release, Martin suggests that CentOS 6.2 (or another >> RHEL equivalent) is used as a base. As my contribution here will >> likely be limited to just this rebase, I'm prepared to accept that >> preference. >> >> However, having installed/run CentOS 6.2 for the first time I now have >> my doubts about this. I installed it on a server where the network >> interface does not appear with F9 (but does work with more recent >> Fedora). With CentOS, the same problem as F9 is presented: no network >> adapter. >> >> Digging further, I see that support was added to the Linux kernel for >> this particular network adapter (Atheros AR8152) on February 16th, >> 2010. However, since CentOS 6.2 uses a kernel from 2009, it does not >> support this hardware. This seems excessively old for a distro that >> was released in December 2011, and I imagine that we will see many >> such problems if we run with this. >> >> With this in mind, is there still a strong preference to go with >> CentOS, or would a more recent Fedora (e.g. 16/17?) be a better >> choice? >> >> Thanks, >> Daniel >> _______________________________________________ >> Server-devel mailing list >> Server-devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > Hi Daniel, > Moving to CentOS or some enterprise Linux makes sense for rebasing XS on > but given the limitations with hardware compatibility, this might be a > blocker. New hardware are being used at deployments so probably we might > have to stick with newer versions of Fedora. > > -- > Abhishek Singh > System Engineer > Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal > साझा शिक्षा ई-पाटी > http://www.olenepal.org > Tel: +977-1-5544441 ext. 102 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > -- Carlos Daniel Garay Departamento de Tecnología, Paraguay Educa. _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
