School server
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.
Roadmap
- XS Roadmap
- Get Involved
- join the mailing list or find us on the IRC channel: #schoolserver on irc.oftc.net
- Get started with one of these easy tasks.
- Get into larger projects with these XS Project Ideas
Design proposals for future features:
- Lease and update server (Done!)
- OTP Root Passwords (Done!)
- Moodle implementation plan and XS Moodle design
- Nepal Wish List
Readme Files for 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.