[OT] List of Open Source Software
There are more than seven hundreds of titles http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3918051_13/Ultimate-... -- luigi
This is off-topic, but I wish to share my experience with a product using lua (and perl) running on an embarked linux system. The Logitech Squeezebox Touch is a small network music player featuring very high quality sound and good ergonometrics. http://www.logitech.com/en-us/54/5745 The software is programmed in lua and perl and is open source. I now have two in my apartment: one in my office and now a second in the kitchen (soon a third in the bedroom?). Will someone now write an application to compile ConTeXt on it? Should be close to trivial, in fact! Alan
On 22-3-2011 3:52, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
This is off-topic, but I wish to share my experience with a product using lua (and perl) running on an embarked linux system. The Logitech Squeezebox Touch is a small network music player featuring very high quality sound and good ergonometrics.
indeed, and apart from scite using lua as embedded language, it was jive that convinced me that lua was a good choice
The software is programmed in lua and perl and is open source.
I now have two in my apartment: one in my office and now a second in the kitchen (soon a third in the bedroom?).
I have a squeezebox classic in the top floor study, a slim devices transporter in the living room (wasn't logitech then), a squeeze radio in the kitchen, another squeezebox stares at me right now, and squeezepad on the ipad (no touch yet, but I might get one some day) .. how else do you think I can work on context -) (btw, i just run the squeezecenter server on a virtual machine)
Will someone now write an application to compile ConTeXt on it? Should be close to trivial, in fact!
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Will someone now write an application to compile ConTeXt on it?
I don't even dare asking what the use case would be :-)
Should be close to trivial, in fact!
For the programming part, probably, but how should it be used? I don't reckon this is the kind of device where the user is expected to type text, let alone to view a PDF file. If you remember my talk in Brejlov, the main part of the work, in developing an iPad application for TeX, was the user interface, not the TeX compiler proper (notwithstanding the arbitrary limitations by Apple that do actually inflict a burden on the programmer). Arthur
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