On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > Hi, > > To avoid leaving the other threads dangling: > > I have been working on a new XS release in collaboration with the > Zamora Teran Foundation (http://www.fundacionzt.org/). The underlying > goal here is to move the XS to a new OS base, which supports new > hardware. The foundation has recently had a fair amount of trouble > finding hardware that is compatible with the dated Fedora 9 release. > > As agreed and directed by Martin this will become the next OLPC XS release. > > There are 3 major changes compared to XS-0.6: > > 1. CentOS 6.2 is the base (which is equivalent to Fedora 13/14), but > we have included Linux 3.2 from Fedora 15 for maximum hardware > compatibility. > > 2. It will be released as both a traditional install CD only requiring > a couple of commands after the install to get up and running, but also > as a set of packages that can be added to an existing CentOS > installation (which probably also works with RHEL/Scientific > Linux/etc). Some steps have been taken for these packages to be easier > to install and run on existing networks (e.g. you can now run parts of > the XS without the requirement that you surrender your networking > setup and layout to the strange configuration that the XS ships). The > usual "take over my network" option will still be there though. > > 3. If you choose to let the XS take over your network: Networking > setup is reworked and greatly simplified. No more bonding, no more > mesh support. eth0 is now the LAN, and eth1 is now the WAN (based on > the thinking that if you only have 1 interface, you're going to want > LAN, not WAN). eth0 runs on a single subnet (not 3) and all the > services bind to 0.0.0.0, and we rely on iptables to drop traffic from > the WAN to the school-internal services. > > > Here in Nicaragua, the Zamora Teran Foundation has the task *this > month* of deploying One Laptop per Child to every child on the > mythical and beautiful island of Ometepe > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ometepe). Unfortunately the hardware > received for these 32 school servers is not compatible with XS-0.6, so > we are under pressure to deploy this very very soon. This means the > plan is to release this as an official XS release *next week* to be > installed on servers immediately shipped to the island. Any help > testing this before we ship it off will be greatly appreciated. > > I'll post installation instructions and some test media within a day > or two - there are just a couple of obvious bugs remaining that need > to be washed out first. > > cheers > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > >
We have a OLPC SF meeting coming up on the 11th (Saturday). If you have an image ready for testing, we can roll up our sleeves and text it on a few boxes. I have a OLPCorps style SolidLogic box, a FitPC2, a FitPC, and a Fujitsu LifeBook P2120. I'm sure others have other boxes. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel