From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41644 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Devereux Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:53:05 +0100 Message-ID: <87mylpz8ry.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> References: <326847810806130328k73f9ed0bw4ec3ede296a29d55@mail.gmail.com> <48524f3a.0c92100a.08c9.fffff43f@mx.google.com> <1213364262.12924.31.camel@elbereth> 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 1213368879 7806 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2008 14:54:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:54:39 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jun 13 16:55:19 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 1K7AgR-0002R3-09 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:55:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 409AE1FCE3; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:54:27 +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 04650-01-13; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:53:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F378C1FCCE; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:53:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD851FCCE for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:53:40 +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 04650-01-12 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:53:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from cordelia.devereux.me.uk (devereux.me.uk [217.169.15.178]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403211FC93 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:53:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [217.169.15.178] (helo=cordelia.devereux.me.uk ident=jd) by cordelia.devereux.me.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K7AeJ-0007kQ-02 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:53:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1213364262.12924.31.camel@elbereth> (Charles P. Schaum's message of "Fri\, 13 Jun 2008 08\:37\:42 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) 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:41644 Archived-At: "Charles P. Schaum" writes: [...] > > I'm torn between a TeX packaged "distro" and independent construction > either via TeX Live itself or DIY'ing it from CTAN. OTOH it's nice not > to have to build your own texmf tree; but it can be done and I've done > it by following the specs. Then again, if you are not LaTeXing things, > you might not need it. It gives one, however, a certain air of > self-gratification to master mktexlsr and have kpsewhich find stuff. I use Debian. Context seems to be well supported, with recent packages (thanks to Norbert Preining I believe). Ubuntu should be fine too (it is a debian derivative) and perhaps more polished for a new user. [...] -- John Devereux ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________