On 2012-07-19 at 21:48:24 +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote: > we're told that U12.10 will ship with tl2012, but fedora's > tempting. (unfortunately i don't trust my creaking old brain to > look after a system that's no longer supported by the department -- > it's centos or ubuntu here or you're on your own. centos has > frozen a similarly ancient version of tl.)
I'm using CentOS at work. AFAIR they switched from teTeX to TL-2007 last year (CentOs 6). Though this TL version is ancient indeed, I had the impression that the rest of the distribution is more up-to-date. Don't know why they decided to provide such a fossil. On the other hand I think that an enterprise grade Linux distribution deserves an enterprise grade TeX Live installation. Nothing easier than that. I installed TeX Live on the server and my colleagues can use it directly without the need to install or update anything. Unix users have to mount it via NFS and add the bin directory to PATH, Windows users have to associate \\server\tex , for example, with a drive letter, and click w32-client.bat . That's all. The nice thing is that I can add custom macro packages, Perl or Lua scripts, the company logo, etc. without the need to tell my colleagues how to install them. Everything I put on the server is available instantaneously. ...unless I forget to run texhash, of course. I suppose that unfortunately most people aren't aware of this possibility. Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
