Linux/Unix in the classroom

[Jerry Feldman]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 09:30:54 -0500
"Hewitt Tech" <hewitt_tech at attbi.com> wrote:

> Jerry, is there a reason why you and the other instructors couldn't
> use Knoppix to teach your courses? You need to be able to boot off the
> CD-ROM but once the system is booted, the system is faster to some
> extent because it's mostly memory resident. Students could save their
> work to the floppy drive. One nice thing about Knoppix is that the
> distro has practically everything you could want on the CD. For
> example if you want to use the Apache web server, you just start it up
> in the usual way and everything necessary is on the CD. All file
> writing is done to the virtual disk and the system probably needs a
> reasonable amount of RAM to work well.
No, I am not currently scheduled to teach Unix next quarter, but I will
discuss this with the other instructors and obtain a CD for myself. 
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