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On 03/08/2014 09:24 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: |
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>>> systemrescuecd? |
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>> "Too complicated". What I mean by this is that the user upon booting |
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>> has options!!! Do you kick into a graphical environment, do you copy |
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>> everything to memory, do you..... you get the idea. The problem is |
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>> that these are first year students in a common first year, they have |
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>> not yet decided upon their stream, could be Civil, Chem, Mech etc and |
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>> don't see any benefit in doing programming but have to pass the |
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>> subject. |
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>> My "requirement" is that it boots into a GUI, preferably straight |
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>> into the environment, no username/password, has dhcp, a decent editor, |
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>> a browser and gcc or clang. |
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>> Andrew |
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> 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. |
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> Tom |
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Thanks everyone for your comments. In my research, I stumbled across |
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sax, www.sax.org, and it does all that I need. I can either burn it to a |
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cd or a stick, it has the apps I need and is quite small, just under 300MB. |
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Andrew |