[XeTeX] Ubuntu and XeLaTeX

[Axel E. Retif]

On 02/21/2013 04:08 AM, George N. White III wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Daniel Greenhoe <dgreenhoe at gmail.com
> <mailto:dgreenhoe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I would like to try using Ubuntu on a laptop PC. Is there a stable
>     version of XeLaTeX available that can run on Ubuntu and that includes
>     Khaled's recent fix of the unicode-math underbrace problem?
>
>
> You can't have a recent bug fix and stability at the same time.   The
> fix is expected to be in TeX Live 2013

Or, as Mojca said, maybe sooner ---just maybe--- in TL contrib:

http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/


> If you aren't using linux to build versions of "mission-critical"
> software without the bugs that affect you, you are missing the real
> benefits of linux.

But that is like saying «If you aren't using Mac OS to build iOS 
applications, you are missing the real benefits of OS X» or «If you 
aren't using Windows to create applications for the World's largest 
installed base, you are missing the real benefits of Windows».

Well ---I use Linux ``just'' for my publishing work ---and I'm very 
happy with ``just'' that.


Daniel,

If you're using Mac or Windows you can try to install different Linux 
distros ---say, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Scientific Linux...--- under 
virtual machines and see which suits you better.

I did that, decided for Ubuntu, and now I move back and forth between 
Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

Also, in http://distrowatch.com/ you can find links to tens of reviews 
for the different distributions; say, for Mint,

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint


Best,

Axel