On Saturday 26 July 2008 09:05:01 am Martin Schröder wrote: > 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 > I use texlive on Slackware. It also allows you to pick and choose what you install. My files end up in /usr/local/texlive/2007
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