Re: Best GNU/linux distro for latex2html?
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> Hi Nasser,
>
> I would install something easy to maintain. A good package management
> system is one based on Debian apt-get. This includes both Debian and
> Ubuntu distributions.
>
> However, any version _will_ work fine, it's just a matter of simple
> installation and long term stability and usability.
I agree (I run Debian Lenny myself), Debian has much improved it's ease
of installation.
The critical point is the need of a good partition of the disk, with
good separation of the various system and user directories.
It is possible to just have one system partition and one user partition,
but I found myself better with a set of partitions respectful of the
OS's structure (/, /boot, /usr, /var, /tmp) and of the user's structure
(as a practical single user, I have /home, /ext -- what is downloaded
from non-OS sites --, /audio, /video, /images.
As fas as Debian is concerned, the development model is conservative:
the stable version is published after extensive testing and packaging
can be late with respect to development: e.g. TexLive in Lenny (the
current stable version) is texLive 2007, and 2009 has been published
last November (its is quite easy to install thes last version from tug.org).
A more up-to-date version is testing (code name Squeeze), which will be
the next stable version, but maintaining testing up-to-date needs a much
higher traffic than maintaining stable, not to speak of possible
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