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On 03/09/2014 04:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> Am 08.03.2014 02:57, schrieb Andrew Lowe: |
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>> On 8/03/2014 9:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>>> Am 08.03.2014 01:54, schrieb Andrew Lowe: |
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>>>> Hi all, I'm doing some research on the topic of LiveCD's and was |
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>>>> after any input the list may have. |
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>>>> Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. |
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>>>> Andrew |
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>>> systemrescuecd? |
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>> "Too complicated". What I mean by this is that the user upon |
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>> booting has options!!! Do you kick into a graphical environment, do |
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>> you copy everything to memory, do you..... you get the idea. The |
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>> problem is that these are first year students in a common first year, |
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>> they have not yet decided upon their stream, could be Civil, Chem, |
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>> Mech etc and don't see any benefit in doing programming but have to |
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>> pass the 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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>> . |
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> they are students. They should have brains and at least average |
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> intelligence. 'choose option two from the boot menu' should not overcook |
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> their neurons. |
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Volker, |
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Whilst I totally agree with your sentiment, it's obvious you've not |
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taught any 1st year, Australian, Uni students lately. After 10 minutes |
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of explaining mv and cp, "You have a source, that's the first parameter, |
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and a destination, that's the second parameter....", they still manage |
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to get it wrong, usually because someone updated something on Facebook 3 |
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minutes into the explanation, and they got distracted by it....... |
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Yes, I do feel old..... |
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Andrew |