[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students
Andrew Lowe agl at wht.com.au writes: 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. adding packages to *ubuntu* after installation, is trivial and part of normal system maintenance. As others have stated, you can use catalyst to create your own gentoo-derivative OS, thus controlling what software the students are using (hopefully). On most every install of linux, it's fairly simple and routine to downloand and install new software; so assess your goals of keeping them each rigidly on the same install base of whatevery distro you select to use. There are 2 differnt gentoo derivatives I'd suggest: Pentoo, is most excellent for the security minded. (weak on community support). http://www.pentoo.ch/isos/ Arch linux is fantastic for noobs. who want a Gentoo_ish distro! https://www.archlinux.org/download/ ymmv, hth, James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students
On 9 March 2014 4:05:42 AM AEST, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: Thanks everyone for your comments. In my research, I stumbled across sax, www.sax.org, and it does all that I need. I can either burn it to a cd or a stick, it has the apps I need and is quite small, just under 300MB. Andrew Do you perhaps mean http://www.slax.org ? Bruce
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students
On 03/09/2014 06:27 PM, Bruce Schultz wrote: On 9 March 2014 4:05:42 AM AEST, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: Thanks everyone for your comments. In my research, I stumbled across sax, www.sax.org, and it does all that I need. I can either burn it to a cd or a stick, it has the apps I need and is quite small, just under 300MB. Andrew Do you perhaps mean http://www.slax.org ? Bruce Whoops, yes. Andrew
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students
On 03/08/2014 09:24 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: 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 Thanks everyone for your comments. In my research, I stumbled across sax, www.sax.org, and it does all that I need. I can either burn it to a cd or a stick, it has the apps I need and is quite small, just under 300MB. Andrew
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students
On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 08:54:38 +0800, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au 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 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
