On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 08:54:38 +0800, Andrew Lowe <[email protected]> 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 > >
You know, if you can be a bit flexible in the 'lightweight' department, Gentoo has some really splendid full-featured live dvds. See the release announcement[1] for the last official release (list of included packages at [2]). More recent pre-release versions are available at [3]. The livedvd team has an irc channel #gentoo-ten on Freenode too. If your requirements are more specific, you could leverage catalyst[4], Gentoo's script for generating release media. It should be possible to add or remove packages from the spec files used for the livedvd, ostensibly available at [5]. You may wish to confer with #gentoo-releng on Freenode for specific questions on catalyst usage. 1: http://www.gentoo.org/news/20121221-livedvd.xml 2: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pr/releases/20121221/livedvd-amd64-multilib-20121221.iso.PACKAGES.txt 3: http://releases.gentooligans.com/ 4: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ 5: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/releng.git;a=tree;f=releases/ -- eroen
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