On 08/03/14 08:54, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I'm doing some research on the topic of LiveCD's and was after any > input the list may have. > > I'm a tutor at a Uni in Australia teaching, amongst others, 1st year > Engineering students. We teach them C. Last year we had a lab set up and > as well, they could ssh into a Linux box from home so that they could do > assignments. Now due to a bureaucratic change ssh access is now gone. > > I would guess that there would be under 1% Linux penetration with > respect to home computers and I've tried, in the past, to help students > set up a dev environment on Macs - a horrid experience, and lets not > even mention trying to easily set up Win* with a dev environemt > > I'm looking for a lightweight LiveCD that includes a graphical > environment and gcc/clang so that we can make it available on our > internal network for the students to download/burn and use at home. Does > anyone have any ideas/experience in something like this? I've looked at > Lubuntu but it lacks gcc. > > Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. > > Andrew >
Hi Andrew ... I stopped doing this awhile back when broadband became common. Now I tell them to download and install via linuxmint/ubuntu etc. and let the distros do the heavy lifting (in virtual box if they dont have the hardware) - and supply a set of instructions to install the wanted packages and configuration (which I have sometimes done by a downloadable script which abbreviates the instructions.) I have used gentoo in labs for some low level tasks/demos and point students to it if they really want to learn about Linux but for most undergrad courses its too non-core to actually get them to build a system. Catalyst can build a customised gentoo system but a) its a lot of work for a small gain and b) you will find yourself doing a lot of support better done by the distros (help, mailing lists, updates, fixes, ...) BillK
