I'm using ubuntu 8.04. Its came with all the lisp goodies from debian,
but have a more polish user interface. CLISP, ECL, sbcl, slime, all
included in the universe distribution of ubuntu.
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:17 AM, ahmet alper parker <aaparker at gmail.com> wrote:
> As it may be useful, between the most widely used distros, only suse is
> compliant with lsb. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base). It
> may in the future be helpfull and less painfull to install programs in a lsb
> compatible environment.
> Regards
> Ahmet Alper Parker
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Richard Fateman wrote:
> > > I am thinking of converting an old intel laptop to run some version of
> unix,
> > > since the laptop
> > > is otherwise kind of redundant.
> > > Students here seem to prefer ubuntu.
> > > Is this a good idea if I want to run lisps and maxima? Or is something
> else
> > > better?
> > >
> > > It would be nice to have a simple installation, and an otherwise
> functioning
> > > unix networking system..
> > >
> > >
> > I have no experience with Ubuntu, but I hear good things about it. I
> > personally use SuSE, which installed quite simply, has most things you
> > would probably want, but you might have to go install your own version
> > of whatever Lisp you want. I couldn't find a version of gcl for it, and
> > I'm incapable of building it myself. But cmucl and sbcl binaries work
> > just fine.
> >
> > But my experience is on a desktop. I have heard Linux on laptops are
> > rather finicky, especially with wireless and sleep modes.
> >
> > If you buy SuSE, you get a month of free support, which might be
> > useful. I'm sure there's lots of support for Ubuntu too, since it seems
> > quite popular.
> >
> > Ray
> >
> >
> >
> >
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