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

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

On 03/09/2014 04:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Am 08.03.2014 02:57, schrieb Andrew Lowe:
>> On 8/03/2014 9:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>> Am 08.03.2014 01:54, schrieb Andrew Lowe:
>>>> Hi all, I'm doing some research on the topic of LiveCD's and was
>>>> 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
>> 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
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> 
> they are students. They should have brains and at least average
> intelligence. 'choose option two from the boot menu' should not overcook
> their neurons.
> 
Volker,
	Whilst I totally agree with your sentiment, it's obvious you've not
taught any 1st year, Australian, Uni students lately. After 10 minutes
of explaining mv and cp, "You have a source, that's the first parameter,
and a destination, that's the second parameter....", they still manage
to get it wrong, usually because someone updated something on Facebook 3
minutes into the explanation, and they got distracted by it.......

	Yes, I do feel old.....

		Andrew