On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:06:48PM +1030, Darren Freeman wrote: > Maybe check out Knoppix - it's a Linux distribution that exists entirely > on CD and memory - no HD required. If it already has LyX then great, if > not then maybe look into adding it. At any rate it's a complete system > that you can take to somebody's desk and boot from. It spends a few > minutes detecting hardware, and if they like what they see you can > supposedly dump the installation to the HD as currently configured. > Probably works fine with mounting a file on FAT32 as loopback for its > root. > > But I've never tried it (want to though). > > Maybe it would help sell GNU/Linux in general to your workmates. > > Have fun, > Darren > > On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 04:54, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > Hi.. I'm guessing someone's asked this before but anyways - is there any > > plan to have a Windows version of LyX, i.e. a native Win version (so > > that one doesn't need Cygwin and an X server).. reason I ask is I made a > > presentation on LyX (actually, more of a demo) in my department here and > > a LOT of people were really interested.. but many of them were deterred > > by the long installation procedure (ofcourse, the comparison of this > > install was with double-clicking an exe file to do the install).. so > > I've been more or less trying to do demos of Cygwin, X and LyX installs > > on computers in the labs... it would be really nice to have a pure > > windows version but I guess the amount of work involved is not trivial > > at all.. > > > > Thanks, > > nirmal Alternatively, set up a "LyX Server" to be accessed over the network. You still would need a Windows X server though. But that would be more generally useful. With Samba, you could use your local disk for LyX doc storage.
Martin
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