==Concerns with existing course structure==

*The online nature of the course and limited homework assignments does not encourage students to use Linux. Many students write up the C++ asignments in Visual Studio and then cross their fingers when they submit their source code.

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In terms of "ease of use", one thing that was brought up at the meeting was [http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net UNetBootin] (which creates bootable USB drives from major distributions' .iso's). This would require students to purchase an 8GiB or more flash drive (about $10), but would permit mounting the filesystem in write mode, thus allowing students to install new software and save their files, as well as encouraging students to actually do their work in the UNIX environment. --[[User:Weinsteinraun|Weinsteinraun]] 13:39, 5 August 2011 (EDT)