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 259C91392F1 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 03:20:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E9A5E0ADC; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 03:20:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail15.tpgi.com.au (mail15.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.61]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E097EE0ACE for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 03:20:38 +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 14:20:35 +1100 Received: from [192.168.14.2] (27-33-235-192.static.tpgi.com.au [27.33.235.192]) by mail15.tpgi.com.au (envelope-from agl@wht.com.au) (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s293KXFV000637 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 14:20:35 +1100 Message-ID: <531BDDFF.7060201@wht.com.au> Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 11:20:31 +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] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students References: <531A6A4E.8000102@wht.com.au> <531A6BF6.1060906@googlemail.com> <531A7924.20305@wht.com.au> <531B8008.4090000@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <531B8008.4090000@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cf4cd82b-03f8-4b5c-908a-9f5affe461b7 X-Archives-Hash: eaf4c72b3b3ccca9fcd9451156ae74b4 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. >> [snip] >> ... >> ... >> ... >> [snip] >>>> >>>> Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. >>>> >>>> Andrew >>>> >>>> >>> 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 >> >> . >> > > 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