Linux For Programming Live DVD is our recent effort to contribute to the educational sector. It is based on Fedora Core 13 to provide 0 step installation and instantly boot to start an Linux system and X Window GNOME desktop. It has common applications likes Firefox WEB browser for daily use. In addition, it is particularly customized to have JAVA JDK, C/C++ compiler and NetBeans integrated development environment for students to practice C/C++ and JAVA programming.
It is a perfect tool for computer science students and who wants to learn and practice C/C++ and JAVA language but don't want or don't know to install these programming tools on their PCs local hard disk.
Despite the aspects of the functioning and design purpose, different to other Live DVD, Linux for Programming Live DVD is virtual machine image based solution. The core Linux system is a Virtual Box virtual disk image on the DVD media. Users can update the core Linux system image with Virtual Box virtual machine. The updated image then can be used to product another DVD ISO file for burning to physical media with appropriate software (see How to Update section for details).
Running this Live DVD, a PC is recommonded to have at least 512MB RAM of main memory. It will use main memory for a small set of system files. However, the bigger memory size you have the better it will work. Because DVD media is slow in speed. With Linux I/O caching technique, it will run better with more main memory.
Linux For Programming Live DVD is free for download. It is hopefully to be an useful tool for students and schools who likes to learn and program with C/C++ and JAVA language but cannot affort expensive commerial product, or missing technical support using Linux for this purpose.
