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On 08.03.2014 05:57, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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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 you |
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> copy 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 not |
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> yet decided upon their stream, could be Civil, Chem, Mech etc and don't |
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> see any benefit in doing programming but have to 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, a |
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> browser and gcc or clang. |
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> Andrew |
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Hi Andrew, |
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I could suggest you create a virtual machine image for e.g. virtualbox, |
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with all the stuff you need. |
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This way you ensure the student has everything you expect him/her to |
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have, and it may be more acceptable for layman to install an emulator |
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with the image, while being able to use his/her own OS, than to reboot |
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each time, and this setup allows to easily save configuration |
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options/work results. |
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Best wishes, |
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Yuri K. Shatroff |
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