From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41194 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt ultraminimals Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:21:48 +0200 Message-ID: <483967EC.3090003@wxs.nl> References: <7871fcf50804102052m59a40efbrdace9d3bc255b03@mail.gmail.com> <47FF1669.1060305@wxs.nl> <6faad9f00804110654k26bc1a66l8a4dc096754445d6@mail.gmail.com> <7871fcf50804110722q1424d9c8xbf394c115c69bc9e@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00804110743m3b95188bvbaf6bf02aa57ec7@mail.gmail.com> <68c491a60804110829wb474409xf7907e72b0d27d91@mail.gmail.com> 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 1211721804 31960 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2008 13:23:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 13:23:24 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun May 25 15:24:04 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 1K0GCh-0000L7-Sw for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 May 2008 15:24:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 490CE1FC6B; Sun, 25 May 2008 15:23:16 +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 09795-03-16; Sun, 25 May 2008 15:22:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A59F21FB89; Sun, 25 May 2008 15:22:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54CFD1FB89 for ; Sun, 25 May 2008 15:22:26 +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 10805-03-2 for ; Sun, 25 May 2008 15:21:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D504B1FB7F for ; Sun, 25 May 2008 15:21:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 8413-1840426 for ; Sun, 25 May 2008 15:21:52 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 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:41194 Archived-At: Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Hi, > >>> But also much bigger. Having an ubuntu/context (vmware) image is not hard to >>> create, but it will take something like 2 gig. Nice idea, though. so much? >> What about this >> http://www.rpath.com/rbuilder > > Not sure what rpath really is, but I can't see where it could help. I > thought about creating a minimal ubuntu/gnome desktop vm with TeX > installed. Installation is not the hard part, maintainig it is. indeed it involves some long term maintainance, esp once users start depending on it, but the idea of being able to run from say a memory stick has some appeal Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________