Hi,
my own laptop experience with ConTeXt and linux has been excellent. I
use both
RedHat 7.1 on one laptop and Mandrake 8 on the other one. So far, most
of my
use of ConTeXt has been on the laptop with RedHat. It works beutifully.
And
the graphics, enhanced with the gimp, look nicer than they would on the
same
laptop with windows.
Window Manager I use: enlightenment. It is lean (compared to KDE and
Gnome).
I did not install KDE (it is too windowish for my taste) but did install
Gnome.
So, altough I do not run Gnome as the base wm (enlightenment looks nicer
and
is faster), I may at will use all the goodies Gnome comes equipped with.
Before switching to windows (which would be a real loss), I would
suggest you to
try RedHat 7.1 and/or Mandrake 8. The tetex on both comes with ConTeXt,
and, for
me at least, it has worked very smoothly.
Cheers,
Andres Villaveces.
Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I spoiled a couple of days installing linux [on this third laptop again my
> video chipset is not supported; in this respect linux is way behind
> windows]. I updated to Xfree 4 and now seem to have problems with starting
> the window manager. Does anyone know if window managers are supposed to run
> on newer drivers?
>
> [I use suse7.1 but am slowly getting sick of the enourmous bunch of window
> stuff installed/loaded and getting rid of it seems impossible, so i wonder
> if i should continue with suse anyway. Are the otherw linux's leaner?] In
> any case i want a running linux/x for testing context on linux. [if i can
> get my old dos-extender stuff working on win200 i will stick to windows
> anyway since graphics are better there]
>
> Hans
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