> > systemrescuecd? > "Too complicated". What I mean by this is that the user upon booting > has options!!! Do you kick into a graphical environment, do you copy > everything to memory, do you..... you get the idea. The problem is > that these are first year students in a common first year, they have > not yet decided upon their stream, could be Civil, Chem, Mech etc and > don't see any benefit in doing programming but have to pass the > subject.
> My "requirement" is that it boots into a GUI, preferably straight > into the environment, no username/password, has dhcp, a decent editor, > a browser and gcc or clang. > Andrew System Rescue CD fulfils the above requirements. You can go straight to XFCE, be root with no user/password, by default automatically configures network with DHCP. Editor is vim (I believe), browser is Midori, and gcc is present; I didn't think of looking for clang. Tom
