On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Armando Martins
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