On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Paul Smith wrote:
Yes, it is painfully a very long installation process for MS Windows users. Most of the time, I use Linux, but sometimes I am in places where there are only MS Windows machines, and once I had to install it on a MS Windows computer.
Paul, Have you considered adding LyX to a Knoppix cdrom and running that in a Microsoft machine? You can modify Knoppix to your heart's content, or use another bootable distribution if you prefer that. The advantages are that you can hand out copies to everyone, run a working linux version of LyX, yet be able to save files to the local hard drive or send them to a networked printer. The initial setup to place LyX within the Knoppix environment will take some time, but then it's a simple matter to burn as many disks as you need. Also, if you set Knoppix to run Xfce rather than KDE you can get a full GUI environment in a machine with 32-64M of RAM rather than the minimum of 128M that KDE requires. For all of you in academia, this will let you provide students and fellow faculty with a full-blown linux distribution that includes LyX and each recipient can run it from his/her own machine (desktop or portable) without affecting the installed OS. Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President | Author of "Quantifying Environmental Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) | Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic" <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
