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How does XS Community Edition help?
Read about ebooks and Internet-in-a-box below, if you can to bring "digital library" into the hands of all.
A School Server brings your classroom (or school) OLPC XO laptops together, 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!
