Linux/Unix in the classroom

[Jerry Feldman]

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 17:13:02 -0500 (EST)
Bill Mullen <moonmullen at attbi.com> wrote:

> Jerry, perhaps one good solution for you is to burn yourself a few
> copies of the single-CD Knoppix distro. Current ISO is available at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.1-2003-01-01-EN.iso
> 
> MD5 file is:
> 
> ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.1-2003-01-01-EN.iso.md5
> 
> This is a Debian-based distro that boots and runs from the CD, without
> 
> installing anything on the hard drive(s) at all. It detects all
> hardware at bootup, and does so surprisingly well. I routinely use it
> as a rescue disk, and to quickly determine hardware compatibility on a
> system; I just boot it, and once it's up, I can poke around /etc and
> see how it set up X or the NIC(s) or whatever, and all the usual logs
> are there as well.
> 
> You need to use 700MB CD-Rs for this puppy, because it's packed with
> just about everything but the kitchen sink. It has KDE3, Gnome 1.4,
> IceWM, Koffice, OpenOffice 1.01, Xine, Ogle, Mozilla, the GIMP, Wine,
> CUPS; the list just goes on and on. It runs the basic system in a
> ramdisk, and the rest is pulled in off of the CD as needed (w/
> on-the-fly decompression).
> 
> If I were teaching a Linux course on other people's hardware
> (especially if that hardware is running Windoze now, and the owners
> prefer it to stay that way), using Knoppix discs would be the way that
> I'd do it.
That is one way, but I am not the only instructor. They teach the course
in 3 different campuses, and there are about 6 instructors that teach
that course. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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