On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Alan Stone
( Oops, pushed inadvertedly some key on my keyboard and the message was away while in GMail - here's the sequel... )
Having heard Linux is, amongst other things, far more stable I might be tempted to play with it and progressively build some experience with it, master the beast and then switch some applications, amongst which ConTeXt, to it.
As I presently don't know a thing about Linux, which distribution do you recommend ? I have played with fedora /red-hat, opensuse/suse, debian, ubuntu, slackware . All goods, actually I'm using ubuntu. Maybe fedora/opensuse with kde can be confortable for you .
BTW, I don't use tex from these distro, I always put all files under /opt/luatex , compiling when necessary ; it's in a someway distro-independent. -- luigi