Is it alive?

[Marcus Denker]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:12:48PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> 1) A live CD which somebody can just pop into a CD drive on a PC and boot to 
> get Squeak working. It does not matter what the underlying o/s is. A possible 
> example method is at:- http://www.knoppix.org/ which provides a Live Linux 
> CD. It would not be too difficult to replace the unneeded window manager and 
> applications with a Squeak system.
>
Yes, it would be simple to build a Squeak-CD on top of Knoppix... but...
it would only boot on a PC. Not on my Mac!

Slightly of-topic: Seeing Knoppix and Squeak mentioned 
together, Klaus Knopper did take some photos of our        
small Squeak booth at LinuxTag02, have a look at:     

 http://media.linuxtag.org/gallery/album02/agm
 http://media.linuxtag.org/gallery/album02/agk
 http://media.linuxtag.org/gallery/album02/agl

Have you seen any issue of Tansel Ersevan's SqueakNews? This is a
(commercial) CD-ROM based Squeak e-zine, done 100% in Squeak.

The first two issues (July/Aug 2001) can be downloaded as CD-images at:
 http://www.squeaknews.com/download/index.html

These CDroms are very nice: They simply work on all important systems (Win,
Mac, Linux). And no setup is required.
  
I especially like the  October 2001 issue "Powerful Ideas for the
Classroom".

> 4) Removal of the red cautionary-tale text screen which greets you on starting    
> up a 3.2 image. If you tell them it's difficult right at the start, the 
> masses will take off like scaled cats, never to be seen again. Actually 
> Smalltalk is difficult only if your mind has been horribly corrupted by many 
> years of traditional computer programming.
> 

Uhh... the Squeak you can download at Squeak.org is for experts only, "the
Hacker release". The UI of that Squeak is not even close to one I would
like to see for a Squeak that "normal" people should use.
Did you know that Dilbert has started to develop with Squeak? 
Have a look at
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2812750020923.gif

;-)

    Marcus


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