Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:22:18 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6I9LpWi026863 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:21:56 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C22E3C.9C994100" Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6I96SWK013645; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:06:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g6I400wU015057; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:06:44 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 4417 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:06:44 +0200 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g6I96irU016871 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:06:44 +0200 Received: from obelix.ee.duth.gr (asterix.ee.duth.gr [193.92.243.98]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6I95iWK013420 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:05:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (apostolo@localhost) by obelix.ee.duth.gr (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g6I9Aie03559; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:10:44 +0300 (EET DST) In-Reply-To: <200207180220.g6I2K7qZ013585@bilbo.localnet> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Jul 2002 09:22:18.0048 (UTC) FILETIME=[9CA09400:01C22E3C] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:10:44 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia Thread-Index: AcIuPJzCTi4Pvf4oRm2OBGCdiPTjfw== From: "Apostolos Syropoulos" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4325 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C22E3C.9C994100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Boris Veytsman wrote: > Right now there is nothing to tell about my Debian/LaTeX machines: > they happily do what I want, and I never post anything about them in > ctt or elsewhere. I am very much interested in keeping the situation > exactly like this. My collegues here claim that Slackware is *the* best Linux distribution and we have three Slackware boxes (one on Alpha) that have a TeX installation that works flawlessly. In addition, we do have a QNX box = with a TeX installation, 3 Solarix x86 8 boxes with TeX installations, and a OpenBSD box with a TeX installtion. So far (2-3 years) we had no = problems at all. In addition, TeX works flawlessly on Mandrake. So, what your = point about this Debian/LaTeX machines? I reall don't get it! TeX is a program that can be installed on any machine, while Debian Linux is Linux distribution (kernel) plus goodies. And those goodies make the "difference". A.S. **************************************************************** *Apostolos Syropoulos * *snail mail: 366, 28th October Str., GR-671 00 Xanthi, HELLAS * *email : apostolo@ocean1.ee.duth.gr * *phone num.: +30-(0)5410-28704 * *home page : http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo * **************************************************************** ------_=_NextPart_001_01C22E3C.9C994100 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Boris Veytsman wrote:

> Right now there is nothing to tell about my = Debian/LaTeX machines:
> they happily do what I want, and I never post = anything about them in
> ctt or elsewhere. I am very much interested in = keeping the situation
> exactly like this.

My collegues here claim that Slackware is *the* best = Linux distribution
and we have three Slackware boxes (one on Alpha) that = have a TeX
installation that works flawlessly. In addition, we = do have a QNX box with
a TeX installation, 3 Solarix x86 8 boxes with TeX = installations, and a
OpenBSD box with a TeX installtion. So far (2-3 = years) we had no problems
at all. In addition, TeX works flawlessly on = Mandrake. So, what your point
about this Debian/LaTeX machines? I reall don't get = it! TeX is a program
that can be installed on any machine, while Debian = Linux is Linux
distribution (kernel) plus goodies. And those goodies = make the
"difference".
A.S.

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*snail mail: 366, 28th October Str., GR-671 00  = Xanthi, HELLAS *
*email     : = apostolo@ocean1.ee.duth.gr        = ;            =     *
*phone num.: = +30-(0)5410-28704         &n= bsp;           &nb= sp;           *
*home page : http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apo= stolo          &nbs= p;     *
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