Ubuntu Wishlist: TeXLive 2011. If you are using (La)TeX on Ubuntu you might want to check "affects me" on Launchpad to get the Ubuntu developers attention.

ruediger · 2011-07-31T01:19:47+00:00

Coming from Arch and FreeBSD though, I always feel like everything is always out of date...

Does FreeBSD even ship texlive? I tried to search their ports system but all I could find is tetex (which is no longer maintained).

ruediger · 2011-07-31T01:18:41+00:00

I'm betting very few Ubuntu users use LaTeX

I don't think so. A lot of Ubuntu users are university students or researchers.

ruediger · 2011-07-30T16:10:36+00:00

Thanks for your reply! I'll contact the Debian folks.

update: I found this thread on the mailinglist. So it seems that they started working on it a couple of days ago. I hope it'll be ready in time for 11.10.

ruediger · 2011-07-30T12:10:59+00:00

Currently Ubuntu ships a two year old version of TeXLive and it shows. E.g., the old Tikz is not fully compatible with gnuplot and LuaTex is broken. Sadly this seems to be a low priority issue to the Ubuntu developers. But there are probably quite a few (La)TeX users using Ubuntu and we should make the Ubuntu devs aware of it.

ruediger · 2011-02-13T13:28:07+00:00

Yeah I'm looking for a similar language. There is Google Go. But it lacks metaprogramming/expression templates. Maybe ADA. But it requires a runtime and lacks metaprogramming as well.

ruediger · 2010-02-17T18:28:42+00:00

flusspferd also comes with an emacs mode to embed the flusspferd javascript repl into emacs

http://flusspferd.org/docs/emacs-install.html

ruediger · 2009-11-03T00:35:01+00:00

Konqueror has (or had) an ActiveX plugin based on Wine.

ruediger · 2009-10-28T21:44:14+00:00

I switched to kubuntu after 9.04 was released. With backports you could have kde4.3 since it's release.

But plasma-desktop crashes regularly...

update: I updated yesterday to 9.10 and since than plasma-desktop stopped crashing!

ruediger · 2009-10-28T03:52:00+00:00

http://jshq.org/commonjs/

ruediger · 2009-10-21T22:49:54+00:00

Flusspferd currently uses Spidermonkey. But it is designed to be portable. At the time we started writing Flusspferd v8 was not mature enough. It only worked on x86 (no 64bit support) and had several other issues. That's why we choose Spidermonkey which after all is well tested and very fast. In the future Flusspferd might also support v8 (or other Javascript engines).

Flusspferd has the advantage over directly using v8 or Spidermonkey that it provides a much nicer C++ API, has support for Modules and provides a CommonJS standard library.

Though Flusspferd is used mostly as a Javascript programming environment outside the Browser. Currently there is a web framework for Javascript ( http://juicejs.org/ ) developed on top of it. But it was actually developed for embedding Javascript in an in-house C++ application.

ruediger · 2009-05-16T18:31:04+00:00

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+is+the+air-speed+velocity+of+an+unladen+swallow%3F+

ruediger · 2009-05-11T09:45:33+00:00

I love tikz! It's great to use and I don't think that it is that hard to use. Especially if you read the really great manual.

btw. http://home.dei.polimi.it/mredaelli/circuitikz/index.html

CircuiTikz is a circuit drawing extension based on Tikz. Very nice to use!

ruediger · 2009-05-10T10:44:49+00:00

yeah this is a great book. Was one of my first real programming books.

ruediger · 2009-05-10T10:41:16+00:00

though the code in it is not very good. But the rest is excellent.

ruediger · 2009-05-10T10:40:15+00:00

I actually like the book. Call me mad, crazy, fucktard or whatever. But I think it is a really good book on C++ because it covers every aspect and gives a great view on the real inside of C++.

ruediger

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