[PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Desi Penguin
I'm looking for suggestions for LiveCD that suits following setup. 1. Boot from the linux LiveCD. 2. connect your USB thumb drive to access your C assignments program. 3. Open Vi/Editor to write new code. Save code onto the thumb drive. 4. compile your programs using gcc 5. IDE is bonus but not ma

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Roshan
On Thursday 06 March 2008 16:27, Desi Penguin wrote: >I'm looking for suggestions for LiveCD that suits following setup. >1. Boot from the linux LiveCD. >2. connect your USB thumb drive to access your C assignments program. >3. Open Vi/Editor to write new code. Save code onto the thumb drive. >4.

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Desi Penguin wrote: I'm looking for suggestions for LiveCD that suits following setup. 1. Boot from the linux LiveCD. 2. connect your USB thumb drive to access your C assignments program. 3. Open Vi/Editor to write new code. Save code onto the thumb drive. 4. compile your programs using gcc 5. I

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Devendra Laulkar
Hi, > > > > You can go for Knoppix. It has gcc as well as multiple editors. > > It has good hardware detection. No need to mount the pen drives. > > I haven't seen a modern distribution that doesn't mount pen drivers by > default. The underlying functionality is cross distribution and provided

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Devendra Laulkar wrote: Hi, I'm looking for suggestions for LiveCD that suits following setup. 1. Boot from the linux LiveCD. 2. connect your USB thumb drive to access your C assignments program. 3. Open Vi/Editor to write new code. Save code onto the thumb drive. 4. compile your programs

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Devendra Laulkar
Hi, > I'm looking for suggestions for LiveCD that suits following setup. > > 1. Boot from the linux LiveCD. > 2. connect your USB thumb drive to access your C assignments program. > 3. Open Vi/Editor to write new code. Save code onto the thumb drive. > 4. compile your programs using gcc > 5.

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Roshan
On Thursday 06 March 2008 17:50, Devendra Laulkar wrote: >While what you are saying is essentially true, there are still a lot >of places where old distributions like Red Hat 9 are used. Especially >in colleges. True. Fortunately, some have replaced it with RHEL. I hope some SMBs dealing with in

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Desi Penguin
> > Without deviating too much, I also assume, Amit Karpe (from Pune?) had > posted a Custom build of Ubuntu with all CS based developer tools > within the LIVE CD. Amit, may be you can elaborate more on that option, > apart from Knoppix and Fedora Spin. I'm assuming CS==Computer Science, in whic

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Desi Penguin
> > However, it is assumed, that the "C" programs are mostly console based. That should be OK. This is meant for beginner/intermediate level. So I don't expect the students to write fancy GUI programs. -DP -- On the internet, no one knows you are a penguin -- __

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Pranav Peshwe
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for suggestions for LiveCD that suits following setup. > > 1. Boot from the linux LiveCD. > 2. connect your USB thumb drive to access your C assignments program. > 3. Open Vi/Editor to write new code. Save code o

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Pranav Peshwe wrote: Digressing a bit - how about _not_ allowing an IDE at all ? IMHO, using a console based editor is an important and essential skill when operating *nix kind of OSes. Also, using IDEs right from the beginning will keep the student in dark about what goes into compiling and de

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Roshan
On Thursday 06 March 2008 20:06, Desi Penguin wrote: [snip] >I'm assuming CS==Computer Science, in which I would be very interested > to know about it. Yes, I should have written Comp. Sci., atleast, argh! I assume, he has also delivered a tutorial / talk at foss.in/2007 about the remastered U

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Roshan
On Friday 07 March 2008 00:50, Pranav Peshwe wrote: > Also, using IDEs right from the > beginning will keep the student in dark about what goes into > compiling and debugging a program. And even more important - the > student might develop a feeling that, compiling/debugging without the > IDE is s

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roshan wrote: | I assume, he has also delivered a tutorial / talk at foss.in/2007 about | the remastered Ubuntu CD for developer (Comp. Sci. students). Is the compose set written down someplace ? Would be good to have a Fedora spin - -- You see

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Desi Penguin
> > Digressing a bit - how about _not_ allowing an IDE at all ? IMHO, using a > console based editor is an important and essential skill when operating > *nix > kind of OSes. Also, using IDEs right from the beginning will keep the > student in dark about what goes into compiling and debugging a pro

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Desi Penguin
> Hmm, may be we have digressed too much. Could the OP get a copy of > Knoppix to try out simple C programs? Latest version I can see is 5.1.1 , it is more than year old (Jan 2007) There is a promise of 5.3 being available shortly after CeBIT 2008. What happened to 5.2 ? Should I wait for 5.3 or

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Pranav Peshwe
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, may be we have digressed too much. Could the OP get a copy of > > Knoppix to try out simple C programs? > > > Latest version I can see is 5.1.1 , it is more than year old (Jan 2007) > There is a promise of 5.3 being a

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Pranav Peshwe
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, may be we have digressed too much. Could the OP get a copy of > > Knoppix to try out simple C programs? > > > Latest version I can see is 5.1.1 , it is more than year old (Jan 2007) > There is a promise of 5.3 being a

Re: [PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

2008-03-06 Thread Devendra Laulkar
Hi, > Latest version I can see is 5.1.1 , it is more than year old (Jan 2007) > There is a promise of 5.3 being available shortly after CeBIT 2008. > What happened to 5.2 ? > > Should I wait for 5.3 or go ahead with 5.1.1 ? > I know it doesn't matter for my requirements for LiveCD with Editor+gcc,