IIAB/FAQ

How does XS Community Edition help?

Read about ebooks and Internet-in-a-box below, and to understand what a School Server can do, consider if your classroom (or entire school) wants OLPC's XO laptops communicating & coordinating, in ways that deeply empower kids and teachers.

Where are the docs for the latest release?

Please see the "Installing" and "Configuring" sections off http://schoolserver.org/0.3

What hardware should I use?

XSCE (XS Community Edition) runs on many different hardware platforms, listed below.

Deployment Managers: an all-inclusive tough lower-power unit (eg. TrimSlice) for the developing world especially is expected later in 2013 -- please check back in coming months!

Technical/DIY Implementers: roll your own on XO-1.5, XO-1.75, XO-4, x86 and x64 -- with experimental support for XO-1 and Raspberry Pi also increasingly possible.

What can I do with ebooks (Pathagar) and Internet-in-a-Box ?

Starting around August 2013 XSCE 0.4 should allow you to build a great collection of electronic books for your school (thanks to Pathagar) alongside the incredible Wikipedia-and-then-some resources of http://internet-in-a-box.org -- that permit entirely new opportunities for semi-connected schools and offline libraries worldwide.

We'd like educators' suggestions especially: how should kids best take advantage of these crown jewels of learning, eg. using their XO's browser in places like?

http://schoolserver.org/maps
http://schoolserver.org/books
http://schoolserver.org/library
http://schoolserver.org/khanacademy

How do I get Internet-in-a-Box updates every few months or semester?

Great question: the magicians behind http://internet-in-a-box.org anticipate this will be critical. Several people are working on streamlining this process, ideally with an on-demand service available on different continents to wipe your terabyte/external hard drive clean with the latest free maps/encyclopedia/books/video lessons for a very small shipping/service fee. Keep in touch!