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On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 08:54:38 +0800, Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I'm doing some research on the topic of LiveCD's and was after |
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> any input the list may have. |
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> I'm a tutor at a Uni in Australia teaching, amongst others, 1st |
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> year Engineering students. We teach them C. Last year we had a lab |
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> set up and as well, they could ssh into a Linux box from home so that |
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> they could do assignments. Now due to a bureaucratic change ssh |
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> access is now gone. |
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> |
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> I would guess that there would be under 1% Linux penetration |
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> with respect to home computers and I've tried, in the past, to help |
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> students set up a dev environment on Macs - a horrid experience, and |
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> lets not even mention trying to easily set up Win* with a dev |
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> environemt |
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> |
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> I'm looking for a lightweight LiveCD that includes a graphical |
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> environment and gcc/clang so that we can make it available on our |
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> internal network for the students to download/burn and use at home. |
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> Does anyone have any ideas/experience in something like this? I've |
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> looked at Lubuntu but it lacks gcc. |
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> Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. |
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> |
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> Andrew |
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You know, if you can be a bit flexible in the 'lightweight' department, |
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Gentoo has some really splendid full-featured live dvds. See the |
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release announcement[1] for the last official release (list of |
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included packages at [2]). More recent pre-release versions are |
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available at [3]. The livedvd team has an irc channel #gentoo-ten on |
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Freenode too. |
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If your requirements are more specific, you could leverage catalyst[4], |
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Gentoo's script for generating release media. It should be possible to |
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add or remove packages from the spec files used for the livedvd, |
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ostensibly available at [5]. You may wish to confer with #gentoo-releng |
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on Freenode for specific questions on catalyst usage. |
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1: http://www.gentoo.org/news/20121221-livedvd.xml |
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2: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pr/releases/20121221/livedvd-amd64-multilib-20121221.iso.PACKAGES.txt |
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3: http://releases.gentooligans.com/ |
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4: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ |
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5: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/releng.git;a=tree;f=releases/ |
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