[PLUG] Need LiveCD for Students to learn C

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 6 17:48:51 IST 2008


Devendra Laulkar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> I'm looking for suggestions for LiveCD that suits following setup.
>>
>>  1. Boot from the linux LiveCD.
>>  2. connect your USB thumb drive to access your C assignments program.
>>  3. Open Vi/Editor to write new code. Save code onto the thumb drive.
>>  4. compile your programs using gcc
>>  5. IDE is bonus but not mandatory.
>>
>>  Ubuntu LiveCDs do not have gcc
> 
> You can go for Knoppix. It has gcc as well as multiple editors.
> It has good hardware detection. No need to mount the pen drives.

I haven't seen a modern distribution that doesn't mount pen drivers by 
default. The underlying functionality is cross distribution and provided 
by HAL which GNOME, KDE, Xfce et all already support.

Rahul




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