Make it on top of icewm, and make it run using qemu on windows autostart. This will definetly kick some ass.
ביום שלישי 06 פברואר 2007, 16:19, נכתב על ידי Eli Billauer: > I'm trying to get into the mind of a student, who wants to get the > exercises done. To most people, "useful" is the best way to attract > someone to stay around. > > Since the birth of LiveCDs, there actually is a way to give a student > something that can work right away. Packages are nice, but downloading > them requires that you get your internet connection right under Linux. > Desktops are cool, but they are not reason enough to switch from a > well-known environment. > > I would suggest to create a CS Student edition (CSux is maybe a > problematic name) of a some LiveCD/LiveDVD distro. The idea is to tweak > an existing distro to include the environment a student needs for CS > tasks, with a guarantee not to touch the hard disk. Files would be saved > on disk-on-key. Maybe a 256 MB RAM disk could be used to keep the most > commonly used executables and libraries. Something you can give away and > say: Use it, it's good and it's safe. > > The relevant icons should be on the desktop (editor and maybe a page > which gives some tips), so that the average student would get along well > right away. > > And since this distro needs very basic hardware features, there's not > even a rush to update it too often. > > The point is, that if a student uses a tool for a semester or two, > there's no better way to make him or her aware of the existence of > something else than Windows, which is actually good. > > Eli > > Ohad Lutzky wrote: > > Well, definitely, but this isn't what I had in mind. I was thinking > > more along the lines of "there's this thing called Linux, and you'll > > be using it this semester, and you'll hear lots of horror stories, but > > here are a few cool things about it" --------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
