From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44547 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George N. White III" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: The most Tex friendly distribution? Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 08:15:19 -0300 Message-ID: <22af238a0810030415h1c8a065aq521a37bf704ef0ef@mail.gmail.com> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223032620 19347 80.91.229.12 (3 Oct 2008 11:17:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:17:00 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Oct 03 13:17:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KlifS-0000VA-AR for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:17:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B1C41FEA7; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:16:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11165-03-2; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:15:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB7EE1FE52; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:15:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179001FE52 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:15:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11860-01-6 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:15:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B3F1FADC for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:15:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so1928385fgb.8 for ; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:15:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.187.245.13 with SMTP id x13mr92585far.26.1223032519839; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:15:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.187.247.20 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 04:15:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:44547 Archived-At: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Armando Martins wrote: > Any idea about the most Tex-friendly Linux distribution, please? > Thomas Schmitz told me OpenSuse (which I 've been using for a year...) is > not that Tex-friendly... You need to say a bit more about your circumstances and goals. 90% of TeX should work well (excepting experimental bits like luatex, xetex, and ConTeXt MKiV which may need some tweaks) on all current platforms, but if you are constrained by site policy to use binary packages provided by your distribution, that is an entirely different problem from whether you can use TeX Live from CTAN. If you rely heavily on .dvi and want a viewer (e.g., kpdf) that is integrated with your desktop, then your options are more limited, but you should think about switching to a PDF workflow (because it is well supported outside the TeX community, there are more and better tools for PDF than for DVI). -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________