On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:21, Visser, Martin (Sydney) wrote: > If you haven't heard the news, Red Hat will no longer provider errata > updates for RHL after April 30 next year. (See > http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/11/03/1657205.shtml ). (You'll have > go to RH Enterprise Linux for support from them) > > So a quick survey among Red Hat SLUGgers. I'm a long time RH user > currently with a few RH9 machines. So where are you going to go to? > > 1) Redhat Enterprise Linux? (and pay for the license and support) > 2) Fedora (the spin-off free/open community supported project from RHL)? > 3) Debian? > 4) Mandrake? > 5) Suse? > 6) Gentoo? > 7) Slackware? > 8) Something else? > > It would be interested to see the spread of responses.
I have never used anything other than RH. I run a desktop machine, used mainly for writing book length projects and dealing with Word documents as part of a consultancy. Emacs + LaTeX + OpenOffice.org. I guess I'll bite the bullet and try to go for Debian. Cheers, Alan > > Martin > > > Martin Visser ,CISSP > Network and Security Consultant > Technology & Infrastructure - Consulting & Integration > HP Services > > 3 Richardson Place > North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia > Phone *: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile *: +61-411-254-513 > Fax 7: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail * : martin.visserAThp.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Chubb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 4 November 2003 1:48 PM > To: Alan L Tyree > Cc: Sydney Linux User Group; Hal Ashburner > Subject: Re: [SLUG] PDF to latex or similar > > > >>>>> "Alan" == Alan L Tyree <Alan> writes: > > Alan> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 12:32, Hal Ashburner wrote: > >> Alan, sorry, just playing catch up with my mail. > >> > >> I've never used (or even seen this) but it may be interesting. > >> > >> pdf2latex > >> > > Alan> I have seen - the thing seems to be rather poorly named since it > Alan> is for creating pdf files from latex sources!! > > I think you're getting mixed up with pdflatex. A quick google search on > pdf2latex shows only typos for pdflatex. > > The only (not very good) method I know for getting editable stuff from a > pdf is to use pstoedit. > > Peter C > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
