On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 06:19:48PM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello, > > > To begin with, I find the expressions "Insta party" and "Linux party" > somewhat, uhhm, wrong. I've been in several such "parties" and for some > reason, it didn't look very jolly, for some reason. More like a lot of > pale faces staring on screens. How about "meeting the gurus"? ;) > > > Anyhow, I would like to suggest the following trick: The student pushes > his or her Disk on Key to the lab's computer, and the computer installs > a bootable lightweight distro, which includes everything needed for > development (including Openoffice). Plus their own home directory. And > yes, I know I touch a sensitive, yet fixable issue here (USB sticks).
I'm not sure about the status of Ubuntu's casper, but at least debian-live should be able to create such an image based on the version installed on the workstations. Including support for persistance (saving the changes in the live system) > > Assuming that it will be well crafted, this means that this student can > now plug this key on ANY computer, and go on working. The data will be > stored on the Disk on Key, so this should be plug-and-go. Buying a USB > stick for this purpose sounds reasonable for the purpose of programming > Java at your grandma's. > > This will solve all the compatibility issues. Main headache: To make > it work. Added bonus: make it able to run using a small qemu binary on the CD. I know this worked at least once, but not sure what's the status of that. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux