2008/7/25 Charles P. Schaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, I can only say this: My best experiences for "out of the box" > functionality are from Ubuntu. Like Debian, they have taken TeXlive and > broken it up into a number of packages to allow for some installation
Ahm - has Ubuntu done anything or are they just using the wonderful Debian packages? > I like FreeBSD, but its ports system does not seem to have the same > philosophy as TeXlive, or there are just too few working on it there. I > mean, if Debian can do it, why don't the clever duckies just look at a > few build scripts... So there you either have to use the prebuilt > FreeBSD binaries and install it yourself or build it from source, which > I rather like to do anyway. I haven't tried on the other BSD's. OpenBSD has a very good TL port; AFAIK the other BSDs are catching up. Best Martin ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
