Re: [school-discuss] bootable CDs?

[Richard Houston <rhouston@xxxxxxxx>]

That is very cool. I like that idea for remote date people. They can vpn
in with the openvpn client and do there work with out having to set them
up with a laptop and or there home system with access to your remote
network.

Will this be an open project or just for internal use?



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> Hey Marilyn,
>
>
> Definately see tons of potential in livecd's and not just for
> educational stuff.  I'm currently creating a livecd openvpn cd for secure
> remote access to the community college I'm working at part time.
>
> On 9/29/06, marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> Does anyone else see the potential in bootable CDs?
>>
>>
>> I used them the moment I discovered them back in 2003.  I was teaching
>>  keyboarding and Knoppix 3.2 had a copy of LyX on it.  The students
>> used LyX to
>> write reports for their other classes.  I sent a Knoppix CD home with
>> every kid at the end of the term.
>
>
> And have you had any feedback since then as to what those CD's ended up
> doing?
>
> Since then I've kept up with Knoppix and frequently have used it as my
>
>> primary OS, using my hard disk just for storage.  Since my technical
>> expertise is not at the level of most of you on this list (music teacher
>> . . . yesterday I
>> spent the day playing "Hot Cross Buns" on recorders all day), I
>> appreciate that Knoppix usually sees my hardware and networks easily.
>> It's much less
>> complicated then messing with an installation.
>
>
> :)
>
>
> Last Spring someone from the schoolforge list sent out a link to Frozen
>
>> Tech's
>> Live CD List.  http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
>>
>
>
> Haven't seen that list....I'll probably check it out in the near future.
>
>
> Wow!  That was like Christmas!  I had no idea there were so many
> flavors!
>
>
> :)
>
>
> I found two I liked for school use right away.  I use Kanotix to print
> out
>> posters, but the most important for me is Musix.
>
>
> I'm definately going to have to get Musix and check it out.
>
>
> For the past two years I have been teaching music at an intermediate
> school.
>> Musix is a bootable music studio.  I boot from the Musix CD, it sees
>> the sound card and presto - I've got sequencers, synthesizers, music
>> notation editors, drum machines, a music theory game and even a guitar
>> tuner.  I have permission from my system administrator to use bootables
>> so next week I am taking all of my music classes to the lab to run
>> Musix.  We will play the music game,
>> play with the drum machine, and write a recorder song using only five
>> notes.
>
>
> Sounds great!
>
>
> Couldn't we have a bootable CD for each subject area - math, science,
>
>> writing, art?  A teacher can use bootables without the district
>> adopting a new OS.
>
>
> Of course we can...it's just a matter of putting the resources into it.
>
>
> We will be using Samba Network Neighborhood to save our work on district
>
>> servers.
>
>
> That seems reasonable.
>
>
> Of course you all know about Freeduc.  I use that with my little kids at
>
>> home.
>>
>> I am giving a presentation on bootable CDs at our local TCEA
>> conference on 10/28.  It will be interesting to see if anyone attends!
>>
>>
>> Later,
>> Marilyn
>>
>>
>
>
> Ok, notes about some experiences with livecd's...I've messed with a lot
> of them....currently Damn Small Linux (damnsmalllinux.org) and Puppy
> Linux (
> puppylinux.org) are my favorites.  However there are many more that are
> useful in various situations.  I really like the idea of being about to
> boot off of flash drives although I've not yet had a chance to set DSL or
> Puppy
> up to do that.  A couple of other's that I think of off the top of my
> head are dynebolic and legonoppix.  The former has a cia factbook based
> world geography program as well as tons of streaming multimedia options
> for the arts (I believe the cia factbook geography thing is xrmg, however
> I will
> look it up and report back) and legonoppix (I have a very old copy and
> don't know if it is still being worked on) has several applications to
> allow one to program lego robots.
>
> One of the most exciting things for me is the use of boot cds with
> emulators for three different purposes.  One purpose is test out bunches
> of .iso's without having to actually burn any CD's or wait for long boot
> times.  The second is to test new remasters out before burning them (and
> wasting a cd if you made a stupid mistake).  The third (and I really love
> this one) is to provide a full system in all it's glory (or a completely
> chopped down 1 purpose application cd) to windows user's...i.e. you put
> Qemu (or VMWare
> viewer) on the cd with an inf that says to start the emulator pointing to
>  the iso stored on the cd.  I believe it could also autostart on various
>  linux distro's (you'd have to put both versions of the emulator on the
> cd)
>
> Pop said disk into cd slot on a windows box and let it boot and there it
> all is...When done just click the little X on the emulators window and it
> all goes away...it's really nice.  Try it...:)
>
> As to programs on an educational livecd please include kturtle
> (edubuntu-live already does ;) and if you can find it a better version of
>  the xrmg program I mentioned above.
>
> Alight, back to the salt mines.
>
>
> Jeff
>
>