On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:29 AM, George Hunt <georgejh...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I took the picture in the following url, I was focusing on what it > would take to run off of 12V deep cycle battery: > > http://schoolserver.wordpress.com/xs-installation/xs-0-7-running-on-xo-1-5/
That's very cool! > I'm concerned with packaging, and physical robustness in a real school > setting. Maybe we could get someone with ME skills to dream up a cheap > package for all the accessory items. I can't speak much about ME, but I can suggest looking at some TP-LINK and "Sapido" branded small APs that take USB power. You can have a USB-powered HDD as well, and you still have a free USB port on the XO. > At the fall 2011 summit, there was a general call for a turnkey XS that > "just worked". If we could solve the form factor problem, the XO1.75 might > be a good solution. I'm exploring that path with a variant of the Dreamplug, but that won't happen overnight. > I think it was Sameer who was telling me that in Australia, they are > thinking about one XS per classroom. In that setting, seems to me that > XO1.75 (even with only 512MB memory) would be more than adequate. One XS per classroom is a _bad_ idea for other reasons. One AP per classroom is a good idea, OTOH, and an XO-1.75 can probably handle a mid-sized school OK. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
