Have you considered that it might be getting too big as a preinstalled distro if everything is set up to be installed out of the box? Perhaps make packages of all the items, include the most neccessary and provide the others on the MLUG repository? In any case, it will probably be a DVD.
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 14:16 +0200, Philip Serracino Inglott wrote: > First off, the minutes wrongly report this idea to be mine. It was > seb's I think. I just said we should make it into an MLUG project. > > Now, to business. I think we need a catchy name, something like > FreeCoderDisc or "The IT Student's Open Resource Bundle" = TITS-ORB > > Also it is about promoting Open Source, not making life easy for > students! But in any case with regards to databases, web servers > etc... I thought it was about providing development tools, not actual > infrastructures. Good text editors, ides etc. I think that should be > the priority. > Other wise we can provide a whole LAMP stack like XAMPP, and all of cygwin. > > Also should we include web development stuff? i.e. FireFox with > Firebug and Webdeveloper and greasemonkey? > > How about embeded development? i.e. should we think about engineering > students? AVR cross-compilers, PCB design etc? > I think we should also try and target MCAST students if we can. and > include a few goodies like putty and pdfcreator > > Philip > > > > 2008/6/22 Ramon Casha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > apache with useful modules like php, perl, mono, subversion etc. > > TortoiseSVN > > > > Ramon Casha > > > > 2008/6/21 Sebastian Cachia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> Started some work on the University OpenDisk idea Philip had. The software > >> in square brackets is what is currently used. I think it would be something > >> good to ensure all software has both a Linux and Windows version. That way > >> we could get students using the software on Windows, and then use their > >> familiarity with those packages to move them over to Linux. > >> > >> There are a number of applications I have listed, for which I know no > >> suitable substitute offhand. Also, I haven't included any software that > >> would be required in 3rd and 4th years as I haven't got there yet. > >> > >> General Development > >> - OpenJDK [JDK] > >> - Mono [.Net Framework] > >> - Eclipse or Netbeans [Eclipse or Netbeans] > >> - MonoDevelop [Visual Studio, Visual Studio Express Editions] > >> > >> Functional/Declarative Programming > >> - HUGS [WinHugs] > >> - SWI Prolog [WinProlog] > >> > >> Diagramming > >> - ? [Visio, SmartDraw] > >> > >> Engineering > >> - ? [PSpice] > >> - ? [Matlab] > >> - ? [Emu8086] > >> > >> Databases > >> - mySQL [Oracle] > >> - ? [WinRDBI] > >> > >> Compiling Techniques > >> - JFlex [JFlex] > >> > >> Applied Graphic Design > >> - ? [PolyRay] > >> > >> > >> Anyway, that is what I have so far... Anybody know of any better > >> alternatives, other subjects, or things I have overlooked? > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> MLUG-list mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
