From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Andrej Bauer <andrej.bauer@andrej.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries?
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:10:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090904141008.GC22690@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d8707de0909040326x37d455cdi9f480b2b5da96b20@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:26:45PM +0200, Andrej Bauer wrote:
> I would use batteries and would recommend it to my students if there
> were any chance they would succeed installing it. In other words,
> batteries is too hard to install. This may not be so on Linux, but
> what about Windows (99% of my students use Windows only)?
Give them a live CD.
There are various online projects where you can create live CDs with a
custom set of packages via a webpage.[1]
A live CD is actually better than relying on them trying to install
something under Windows, because you're guaranteeing a consistent
environment. And you can provide them with customized bits too (like
the coursework!)
If you provide the live CD as both a physical CD and a downloadable
ISO, they can even run it virtualized so they don't need to reboot.
Rich.
[1] Fedora's tool is command-line based: you can use
'appliance-creator' or 'livecd-creator'.
http://thincrust.org/ace-examples.html
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-03 13:05 Edgar Friendly
2009-09-03 13:15 ` [Caml-list] " Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2009-09-03 13:25 ` Alan Schmitt
2009-09-05 8:47 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-09-06 10:03 ` Alan Schmitt
2009-09-06 10:15 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-09-06 10:29 ` Alan Schmitt
2009-09-03 14:10 ` kattla
2009-09-05 8:59 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-09-03 14:25 ` Vincent Aravantinos
2009-09-03 14:35 ` Dario Teixeira
2009-09-04 0:08 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-04 6:18 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2009-09-04 6:39 ` Gaius Hammond
2009-09-04 14:04 ` Richard Jones
2009-09-03 15:00 ` Ashish Agarwal
2009-09-03 18:24 ` Alp Mestan
2009-09-03 20:38 ` Ashish Agarwal
2009-09-03 15:50 ` Tom Hutchinson
2009-09-04 8:55 ` Pierre Etchemaite
2009-09-04 9:32 ` Stéphane Glondu
2009-09-04 10:26 ` Vincent Aravantinos
2009-09-04 10:26 ` Andrej Bauer
2009-09-04 14:10 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2009-09-04 14:38 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2009-09-04 18:37 ` Gaius Hammond
2009-09-05 4:53 ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2009-09-05 9:44 ` David Allsopp
2009-09-05 10:22 ` rixed
2009-09-05 12:03 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-05 11:11 ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2009-09-05 12:02 ` Richard Jones
2009-09-05 21:19 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-05 10:23 ` Gaius Hammond
2009-09-05 11:36 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-05 11:52 ` Richard Jones
[not found] ` <b364036a0909050359q25fbab92l88b2415812941ae1@mail.gmail.com>
2009-09-06 7:47 ` Fwd: " dmitry grebeniuk
2009-09-06 7:59 ` Adrien
2009-09-06 8:47 ` Henry Lenzi
2009-09-06 9:46 ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2009-09-06 9:52 ` Gaius Hammond
2009-09-06 13:24 ` Olivier Schwander
2009-09-06 11:34 ` rixed
2009-09-04 19:53 ` Richard Jones
2009-09-11 16:07 ` Florent Ouchet
2009-09-04 15:05 ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2009-09-03 16:13 ` Richard Jones
2009-09-03 16:49 ` Jake Donham
2009-09-03 17:00 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2009-09-03 18:18 ` Jean-Christophe Filliâtre
2009-09-04 3:24 ` Mike Lin
2009-09-04 3:36 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2009-09-04 3:44 ` Edgar Friendly
2009-09-04 4:29 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2009-09-04 8:18 ` Stéphane Glondu
2009-09-04 11:40 ` Jean-Christophe Filliâtre
2009-09-03 19:08 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2009-09-03 23:13 ` [Caml-list] " Philippe Wang
2009-09-03 23:19 ` Hugo Schmitt
2009-09-04 3:34 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2009-09-04 5:52 ` David MENTRE
2009-09-04 6:21 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2009-09-05 10:01 ` rixed
2009-09-06 9:56 ` Philip
2009-09-30 12:27 ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
[not found] <20090904061012.A1167BCC4@yquem.inria.fr>
2009-09-04 10:47 ` Pascal Cuoq
2009-09-04 14:25 Dario Teixeira
2009-09-04 21:21 ` Richard Jones
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