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Regarding using LiveCds in class, I've had great luck with Knoppix. Though, for specific activities, I've also used Helix, Back Track, and a variety of other LiveCDs. For one of their assignments, I have my students compare and contrast several LiveCD distributions. Better student present their chosen distributions to the class. DSL, Slax, and a variety of other distributions seem popular for this assignment. As a project, I have the students create a (remastered) custom version of Knoppix. Through trial and error, we've found that Kyle Rankins "Knoppix Hacks" offers a good guide to the remastering process. Though for possible future use, I'm also looking at Chris Negus's "Live Linux CDs". While I wouldn't consider Knoppix remastering a Guru level activity, I wouldn't consider it a novice level activity either... For a novice, something like MySlax Creator would be much more appropriate. To create a custom version of Slax, you run the Creator in Windows like a wizard. My student that presented this called it "Custom Live Linux CDs for people that like Windows." You can find the Creator at: http://myslax.bonsonno.org/download.php Best of luck, Uno > Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:42:11 -0300 > From: synrg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Live CD: DIY vs. Distribution > To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:34:54 -0400 > Chris Gregan <cgregan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I whole heartedly agree. In-fact I recently read an article in this > > month's Linux Format about this very topic, and I think it could help > > out greatly with the creation of a Schoolforge specific live distro. > > The problem I see with "Schoolforge specific" is that the Schoolforge > mandate is rather broad, so that a very general live CD with broad appeal > would be rather a chore to make. What I had in mind was that you could > each make a live CD on demand that met your own various requirements > without any large scale coordination or reuse by more than the people > in your own various projects. > > > It looks very user friendly from a GUI standpoint, and > > would allow for a lot of flexibility in creating a top notch educational > > disk. > > Oh, I forgot to mention that there is now a 'live-magic' GUI tool for > creating debian-live CDs too, though I have not yet used it, myself, > being a die-hard command-line kind of guy. :) > > Ben > -- > ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca synrg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > \`' Debian http://www.debian.org synrg@xxxxxxxxxx > ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] > [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] Gear up for Halo® 3 and get a $25 Best Buy gift card. It’s our way of saying thanks for using Windows Live™. Get it now! |