From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A82E139280 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2014 18:05:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D0FBE0BB0; Sat, 8 Mar 2014 18:05:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail9.tpgi.com.au (mail9.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.104]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9DD65E0AFF for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2014 18:05:50 +0000 (UTC) X-TPG-Junk-Status: Message not scanned X-TPG-Antivirus: Passed X-TPG-Abuse: host=27-33-235-192.static.tpgi.com.au; ip=27.33.235.192; date=Sun, 9 Mar 2014 05:05:47 +1100 Received: from [192.168.14.2] (27-33-235-192.static.tpgi.com.au [27.33.235.192]) by mail9.tpgi.com.au (envelope-from agl@wht.com.au) (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s28I5jbH016869 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 05:05:47 +1100 Message-ID: <531B5BF6.8040507@wht.com.au> Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 02:05:42 +0800 From: Andrew Lowe Organization: Wombat High Tech User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students References: <531A6A4E.8000102@wht.com.au> <531A6BF6.1060906@googlemail.com> <531A7924.20305@wht.com.au> <654154.7132.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <654154.7132.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 63328e23-07bf-4494-b33e-11fb7a7b48e8 X-Archives-Hash: 78c7e130dc269430554f91656487d9f9 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