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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 20:39:45
Message-Id: 531B8008.4090000@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students by Andrew Lowe
1 Am 08.03.2014 02:57, schrieb Andrew Lowe:
2 > On 8/03/2014 9:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 >> Am 08.03.2014 01:54, schrieb Andrew Lowe:
4 >>> Hi all, I'm doing some research on the topic of LiveCD's and was
5 >>> after any input the list may have.
6 > [snip]
7 > ...
8 > ...
9 > ...
10 > [snip]
11 >>>
12 >>> Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
13 >>>
14 >>> Andrew
15 >>>
16 >>>
17 >> systemrescuecd?
18 >>
19 > "Too complicated". What I mean by this is that the user upon
20 > booting has options!!! Do you kick into a graphical environment, do
21 > you copy everything to memory, do you..... you get the idea. The
22 > problem is that these are first year students in a common first year,
23 > they have not yet decided upon their stream, could be Civil, Chem,
24 > Mech etc and don't see any benefit in doing programming but have to
25 > pass the subject.
26 >
27 > My "requirement" is that it boots into a GUI, preferably straight
28 > into the environment, no username/password, has dhcp, a decent editor,
29 > a browser and gcc or clang.
30 >
31 > Andrew
32 >
33 > .
34 >
35
36 they are students. They should have brains and at least average
37 intelligence. 'choose option two from the boot menu' should not overcook
38 their neurons.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au>