From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19864 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johan Sandblom Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: new beta Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:33:58 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113510672 9101 80.91.229.2 (14 Apr 2005 20:31:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:31:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 14 22:31:06 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMAz0-0000zg-Tu for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:30:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A606E12919; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:34:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11944-03; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:34:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3EF1291B; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:34:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044A21291B for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:34:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11798-07 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:33:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3.ki.se (smtp3.ki.se [130.237.98.100]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 046AE12919 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:33:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.smtp3.ki.se by smtp3.ki.se (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.02 (built Oct 21 2004)) id <0IEY00L01EGM2H@smtp3.ki.se> for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:33:58 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from ki.se (scnode1.it.ki.se [130.237.99.51]) by smtp3.ki.se (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.02 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IEY00MC0EGMXT@smtp3.ki.se> for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:33:58 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from [213.142.10.52] by mail.ki.se (mshttpd); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:33:58 +0200 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.27 (built May 12 2004) Content-language: en Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal X-PMX-Version: 4.7.0.111621, Antispam-Engine: 2.0.2.0, Antispam-Data: 2005.4.14.12 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19864 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19864 I used RedHat five years ago but quickly got fed up having to chase down dependencies and got Debian. Only trouble I have had since then was when I started using recent ConTeXts and couldn't go with the default tetex, but texlive is easy enough to install. I started using gentoo about a year ago on another system and found it largely excellent but being a source distribution it trades small performance gains for sometimes *very* long install (or rather build) times. Also, there were some package/version inconsistencies causing install failures, but these were resolved within a few weeks. I have used modem and adsl with debian, and adsl with gentoo without problem. ReiserFS on both for a long time. Well, back to work, thesis refuses to write itself ... -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" -- Bertrand Russell ----- Original Message ----- From: Hans Hagen Date: Thursday, April 14, 2005 9:32 pm Subject: Re: [NTG-context] new beta > Johan Sandblom wrote: > > >... > > Comparing the two, the debian testing distribution has never been > less> than stable while gentoo testing is updated faster, but has > given me trouble > > at some points. > > > > Sorry for the noise if this is inappropriate information for this > list, > no problem; here i have been using suse for years; i am considering > gentoo, but > i'm not sure about it yet; suse only ships stable releases which is > why updating > pieces of the system is tricky; the problem is (as always) in the > gui part; > somehow the interfaces to the libs change (too) often. > > (one of the reasons for choosing suse is that it is very well > equiped for > european situations (modems, adsl, etc) and shipped with state of > the art > journaling filesystems like reiser as well as raid support; that > time our > webserver came with redhat ... well, that was a real pain, esp > secutity updating > (unless one paid); suse's updating is automatic and ok) > > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >