maybe OT? ConTeXt on an EEEPC

* maybe OT? ConTeXt on an EEEPC
@ 2008-04-19  9:42 Thomas A. Schmitz
  2008-04-19 12:46 ` Hans Hagen
  2008-04-20 11:21 ` Otared Kavian
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2008-04-19  9:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Dear all,

maybe this is off-topic, but I just wanted to tell you about my  
experiences (and sorry if this sounds like a sales pitch, it isn't!).  
Since I have a fairly long commute to work, I spend a lot of time on  
the train and like/need to do serious work there. When you have to  
schlepp it almost every day, a normal laptop seems pretty heavy after  
a while, that's why I got me one of those eeepc thingies. Its tiny  
screen and small keyboard scream "I'm just a mobile device, not a  
replacement for a real computer," and it's not the fastest machine  
around. However, my joy is great whenever I stuff the little thing in  
my bag and lift it.

I got the 8GB variant. To do work, I always want all my documents with  
me (so I can easily sync my entire Documents directory between work,  
home, and laptop) and, of course, my TeX installation. My texlive- 
texmf tree now is 1.6 G, so I needed a bit more space than the 4G  
model offers (models with larger screens and hard disks will be  
available soonish). It has a SDHC card reader, so I copied my  
Documents and the TeX installation to the internal disk (a SSD) and  
have my linux installation on a card from which I boot. With a shell  
script, I set the $PATH so I can mount the internal disk and run  
ConTeXt off of it. Everything works wonderfully. As I said, it's a  
slow machine, so you don't want to compile very long documents too  
often, but it does run every flavor of ConTeXt. I often prepare my  
presentations on the train, and this works great: I have the  
environment to which I'm used for editing the source files (emacs +  
ConTeXt) and a pdf viewer open in another workspace. This setup is one  
of the reasons why I prefer a texlive installation to a minimal  
ConTeXt tree: that way, I have to maintain it only once and can sync  
it between my computers. So whoever has to travel a lot: I find it  
wonderful to have such a small and light computer on the road.

All best, have a nice weekend

Thomas

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