On 08.03.2014 05:57, Andrew Lowe wrote:
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"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
Hi Andrew,
I could suggest you create a virtual machine image for e.g. virtualbox,
with all the stuff you need.
This way you ensure the student has everything you expect him/her to
have, and it may be more acceptable for layman to install an emulator
with the image, while being able to use his/her own OS, than to reboot
each time, and this setup allows to easily save configuration
options/work results.
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Best wishes,
Yuri K. Shatroff
