Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-10-03 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Armando Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea about the most Tex-friendly Linux distribution, please? Thomas Schmitz told me OpenSuse (which I 've been using for a year...) is not that Tex-friendly... You need to say a bit more about your circumstances

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-10-03 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 18, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Peter Münster wrote: You're right, but I've to protect suse a bit: this was only an issue with a very new MKIV (new logic how to use TEXINPUTS), and suse could really not know about

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-10-02 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, Sep 17 2008, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: What's the issue with suse? I'm using it since 1995 without problems. Now I'm just adding the minimals to /opt/context to have up to date luatex and context versions. When I need latex, I use the suse texlive distribution. Cheers, Peter

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-09-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Sep 18, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Peter Münster wrote: You're right, but I've to protect suse a bit: this was only an issue with a very new MKIV (new logic how to use TEXINPUTS), and suse could really not know about that. TEXINPUTS was quite useful, because every user could put his own

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-09-17 Thread Peter Münster
On Mon, Sep 15 2008, Armando Martins wrote: Any idea about the most Tex-friendly Linux distribution, please? Thomas Schmitz told me OpenSuse (which I 've been using for a year...) is not that Tex-friendly... Hello, What's the issue with suse? I'm using it since 1995 without problems. Now

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-09-17 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080320.203129.aec3fb49.en.html Argh :-) Setting TEXINPUTS is not at all friendly, that's for sure. Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-09-17 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, Sep 17 2008, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080320.203129.aec3fb49.en.html You're right, but I've to protect suse a bit: this was only an issue with a very new MKIV (new logic how to use TEXINPUTS), and suse could really not know about that.

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-09-15 Thread Martin Schröder
2008/9/15 Armando Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any idea about the most Tex-friendly Linux distribution, please? Debian. The maintainer (Norbert Preining) actually visits TeX conferences and was in Bohinj. :-) Thomas Schmitz told me OpenSuse (which I 've been using for a year...) is not that

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-09-15 Thread Matija Šuklje
Dne ponedeljek 15. septembra 2008 je Martin Schröder napisal(a): 2008/9/15 Armando Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any idea about the most Tex-friendly Linux distribution, please? Debian. The maintainer (Norbert Preining) actually visits TeX conferences and was in Bohinj. :-) I use Gentoo and am

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-09-15 Thread Gour
Armando == Armando Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Armando Any idea about the most Tex-friendly Linux distribution, Armando please? I'm quite happy with Archlinux (texlive 2008 entered 'extra' repository few days ago). Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: C6E7162D

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-09-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Sep 15, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Matija Šuklje wrote: Dne ponedeljek 15. septembra 2008 je Martin Schröder napisal(a): 2008/9/15 Armando Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any idea about the most Tex-friendly Linux distribution, please? Debian. The maintainer (Norbert Preining) actually visits TeX