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

2014-03-10 Thread James
Andrew Lowe wht.com.au> writes: > I'm looking for a lightweight LiveCD that includes a graphical > environment and gcc/clang so that we can make it available on our > internal network for the students to download/burn and use at home. Does > anyone have any ideas/experience in something

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

2014-03-09 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 03/09/2014 06:27 PM, Bruce Schultz wrote: > > > On 9 March 2014 4:05:42 AM AEST, Andrew Lowe wrote: > >> Thanks everyone for your comments. In my research, I stumbled across >> sax, www.sax.org, and it does all that I need. I can either burn it to >> a >> cd or a stick, it has the apps

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

2014-03-09 Thread Bruce Schultz
On 9 March 2014 4:05:42 AM AEST, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Thanks everyone for your comments. In my research, I stumbled across >sax, www.sax.org, and it does all that I need. I can either burn it to >a >cd or a stick, it has the apps I need and is quite small, just under >300MB. > > And

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

2014-03-08 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 03/08/2014 09:24 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: >>> 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

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

2014-03-08 Thread 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

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

2014-03-07 Thread eroen
On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 08:54:38 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I'm doing some research on the topic of LiveCD's and was after > any input the list may have. > > I'm a tutor at a Uni in Australia teaching, amongst others, 1st > year Engineering students. We teach them C. Last year w