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Re: Debian Development environments.



On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:27:25 +0200
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 20:25:35 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>
> > Still I don't see the advantage of having a complete development
> > environment on a live CD. Who is supposed to use this?
> >
> Students, who typically only have a windows install at home.  It's much
> easier (for them and for the teachers) to give them a live cd with
> everything they might need for their university projects (at least in
> the first few years) than to give them instructions to get a useful
> development environment under windows.

You convinced me ;)

(I prefer the approach they use in my university: it's like "GNU/Linux is
the reference operating system in this course, so if you don't have it
installed, you're better installing it quickly!" But I'm going OT now :)

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KiyuKo <eof AT kiyuko DOT org>
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