Re: [Server-devel] XS on ARM update.

2012-04-11 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
> >> Note that currently Puppet relies on some hard coded intel specific code. > > Oh really? I'm assuming it'd be in the "facter" code, using lspci and > dmidecode to get the "facts" about hardware I just checked ARM Koji and it looks like puppet is building okay on ARM and passing the tests

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Why is it such a bad idea? > > The thought was to do away with registration, moodle and other > unnecessary services and focus only on the XMPP server. You want to run a network of federated XMPP servers? It's madness. Rather, it's no

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 11 April 2012 22:59, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:29 AM, George Hunt wrote: >> 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 m

Re: [Server-devel] XS on ARM update.

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:13 PM, rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: > I have been meaning to email you an update about XS on ARM for a while. > I had to take a hiatus from what I was doing with it, but started back on it > a while back. Great that you're back on track. True, Fedora branches were unpred

[Server-devel] XS on ARM update.

2012-04-11 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
Martin, I have been meaning to email you an update about XS on ARM for a while. I had to take a hiatus from what I was doing with it, but started back on it a while back. I had been experimenting with getting XS components running on ARM. That was with Fedora 13 for ARM. With Fedora 13 for ARM e

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
On Apr 10, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, George Hunt wrote: >> I left my fitpc2 and msi servers in the Philippines, hoping they would be >> pressed into service in a classroom situation. So now I'm in the market for >> another toy. > > If you have

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:29 AM, George Hunt 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

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:55 PM, John Watlington wrote: >> Why not an XO-1.75 ? > > Good point. And XO + AP + HDD would work fantastic. > > George, how many users per server? If <100, an XO-1.75 will do ok. > Want to sign up for the Contr

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:55 PM, John Watlington wrote: > Why not an XO-1.75 ? Good point. And XO + AP + HDD would work fantastic. George, how many users per server? If <100, an XO-1.75 will do ok. Want to sign up for the Contributors Programme (search in the wiki for the URL). XO-1.75, Plug o

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread Abhishek Singh
On 04/11/2012 04:52 PM, James Cameron wrote: > G'day George, > > The trouble with a full mechanical engineering treatment of this is that > there's no telling what size each of the parts will be. > > For something similar I used a kitchen vegetable rack. This is a > plastic shelf, with feet, with

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread James Cameron
G'day George, The trouble with a full mechanical engineering treatment of this is that there's no telling what size each of the parts will be. For something similar I used a kitchen vegetable rack. This is a plastic shelf, with feet, with a square grid pattern. It is often used for potatos and

Re: [Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

2012-04-11 Thread George Hunt
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/ I'm concerned with packaging, and physical robustness in a real school setting. Maybe we could get