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

[Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au>]

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 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
> 

	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.

	Andrew