IIAB/FAQ

How does XS Community Edition help?

Read about ebooks and Internet-in-a-box below, and consider if your school wants OLPC's XO laptop to work together in ways they better 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 later!

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/years?

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 / reflash your terabyte/external hard drive for a very small shipping/service fee. Keep in touch!