Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 08:54:38 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-08 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
On 08.03.2014 05:57, Andrew Lowe wrote: [ ... ] 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 08.03.2014 02:57, schrieb Andrew Lowe: On 8/03/2014 9:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 08.03.2014 01:54, schrieb Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I'm doing some research on the topic of LiveCD's and was after any input the list may have. [snip] ... ... ... [snip] Any thoughts are greatly

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-08 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 03/09/2014 04:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 08.03.2014 02:57, schrieb Andrew Lowe: On 8/03/2014 9:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 08.03.2014 01:54, schrieb Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I'm doing some research on the topic of LiveCD's and was after any input the list may have. [snip]

[gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-07 Thread Andrew Lowe
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 08.03.2014 01:54, schrieb Andrew Lowe: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-07 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 8/03/2014 9:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 08.03.2014 01:54, schrieb Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I'm doing some research on the topic of LiveCD's and was after any input the list may have. [snip] ... ... ... [snip] Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. Andrew systemrescuecd? Too

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag, 8. März 2014, 01:54:38 schrieb Andrew Lowe: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-07 Thread William Kenworthy
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/07/2014 07:54 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: 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