[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

[Thomas Mueller]

> > 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