From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DE7FBC69 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:39:32 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAAYrIEfAXQImh2dsb2JhbACOWgIBCAopgSc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,328,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3637057" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 25 Oct 2007 14:39:32 +0200 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9PCdWZr004280 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:39:32 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CALorIEdQRFuw/2dsb2JhbACQPw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,328,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3591569" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 25 Oct 2007 14:39:32 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Il1zm-0007vq-00 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:39:30 +0100 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:39:30 +0100 To: Inria Ocaml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Which syntax to teach ? Message-ID: <20071025123930.GA25671@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <1193225773.3612.27.camel@Blefuscu> <200710250010.56979.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1193276894.5755.88.camel@rosella.wigram> <20071025094922.GB27217@furbychan.cocan.org> <20071025113258.GA32531@takhisis.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071025113258.GA32531@takhisis.invalid> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 47208E84.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; syntax:01 0200,:01 zacchiroli:01 0100,:01 wiki:01 trivial:01 ...,:98 ubuntu:98 lesson:98 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 debian:04 debian:04 On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:32:59PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:49:23AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > Give them a bootable live CD with all the tools pre-installed and > > pre-configured: > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo > > > > The above tool makes it really trivial to do. > > This is kind of a SPAM, I can't surrender to it! > > Some goes ..., oh no sorry, I have to fight, ... far better you can > obtain in the .deb world with one of the following two tools: > - Debian Live: http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ > - Ubuntu Customization Kit: http://uck.sourceforge.net/ I hope that didn't come across the wrong way. There are of course also excellent Debian-based tools, I just didn't until now know which were the best ones. In any case, it sounds like giving the students a custom live CD is going to be better than spending a whole first lesson getting them to install and configure the required software. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat