[tex-live] tlmgr on Ubuntu linux?

[Nicolas Vaughan]

Yes, in Linux TeX Live works great.
There's only a Windows program for which I haven't found a decent
substitute yet: WinEdt.
Cheers!
Nicolas



On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Reinhard Kotucha
<reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
> On 8 February 2009 Nicolas Vaughan wrote:
>
>  > On curious, and nice, thing about installing TeX Live 2008 in Ubuntu
>  > is the short time it takes to do it. It took almost 5 minutes, whereas
>  > in Windows Vista (in the very same machine, and using the same ISO
>  > image) it takes between 20 and 30 minutes. (BTW, this time-ratio can
>  > also been noticed when compiling XeTeX documents.)
>
> Yes, Windows is dreadfully slow.  Install a virus scanner and your
> machine is completely unusable.
>
> I don't understand why it takes abt. 5 seconds to compile a tiny
> (18 pages) latex document on windows while I can compile the whole
> TeXbook (abt. 480 pages) within 0.66 seconds on my Linux machine.
>
> It seems that the Windows file system (NTFS) is quite inefficient.
> I also have the impression that the implementation of standard I/O
> is quite lousy.
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>
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