Re: [NTG-context] greek again

On Saturday 26 July 2008 09:05:01 am Martin Schröder wrote:

2008/7/25 Charles P. Schaum :

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Well, I can only say this: My best experiences for "out of the box" functionality are from Ubuntu. Like Debian, they have taken TeXlive and broken it up into a number of packages to allow for some installation

Ahm - has Ubuntu done anything or are they just using the wonderful Debian packages?

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I like FreeBSD, but its ports system does not seem to have the same philosophy as TeXlive, or there are just too few working on it there. I mean, if Debian can do it, why don't the clever duckies just look at a few build scripts... So there you either have to use the prebuilt FreeBSD binaries and install it yourself or build it from source, which I rather like to do anyway. I haven't tried on the other BSD's.

OpenBSD has a very good TL port; AFAIK the other BSDs are catching up.

Best Martin

I use texlive on Slackware. It also allows you to pick and choose what you install. My files end up in /usr/local/texlive/2007 Slackware has the tetex package in the Slackware distro but I always eliminate that one. It is quite obsolete. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm