School server

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XO
	13.2.11	2020-01-29
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	xs-0.7	2012-02-20

The XO School server, or XS, is one of the products of the OLPC project, designed to complement the XO laptop. It is a Linux-based OS (a Fedora-based distribution) engineered to be installed on generic low-end servers. We outline hardware recommendations and in the future, we may offer a hardware platform specially designed for the role.

When we deploy one laptop per child, we must also provide additional infrastructure extending the capabilities of the laptops. While the laptops are self-sufficient for many learning activities, other activities and services depend on the School Server providing connectivity, shared resources and services. Services, tools and activities running on the School Server allow asynchronous interaction, can use larger storage capacity, and take advantage of the processing power of the XS.

XS Documentation

• XS Release Notes
• Overview of main XS Features
• XS Recommended Hardware describes the minimum hardware requirements for the School Server
• XS Installing Software has instructions for installing the latest School Server images
• XS Building Software
• XS Software Repositories
• XS LiveCD
• XS Software Testing

Roadmap

• XS Roadmap
• Get Involved - join the mailing list or find us on the IRC channel: #schoolserver on irc.oftc.net or get started with one of these tasks.

Design proposals for future features:

• Lease and update server
• OTP Root Passwords

Technical notes

• XS-XO Interactions: how does the laptop talk to the server?
• XS Automount triggers
• XS Packaging
• XS Directory Layout for packagers
• Moodle implementation plan
• Ejabberd resource tests
• School Service Names
• School Identity Manager
• Datastore Simple Backup and Restore

Key tools

• Ds-backup - backup infrastructure
• XS-rsync - the rsync publishing, used for XO OS updates.
• XS-tools - grabbag of useful utilities. The NOC team will also want this :-)
• XS Automount triggers - used by Xs-activation, Xs-activity-server, Xs-rsync and probably others.
• XS-activation - activation lease server.
• XS-activity-server - serves packages over http.

Outdated

• Short Term Server Questions is a discussion of issues surrounding the immediate deployment of school servers
• Server Discussion describes services and enhancements possibly supported by the School Server
• XS Server P2P Cache
• Server Services
• XS Core and Contrib
• XS DevKit

See also

• Using SSH Keys
• Ejabberd Configuration
• School server network debugging
• How to debug networking in a crowded environment
• Collaboration Network Testbed
• Bitfrost Security and Identity model
• Thin client