[tex-live] tlive on arm ??
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Thu Oct 23 13:45:54 CEST 2008
I'm toying with a somewhat geeky idea.
My primary use of my laptop (other than travel) is to work on my book at
a coffee shop.
The other day - online I found a neat little embedded board called the
Beagle Board and I got a wild hair brained idea -
Build a Beagle Board system, put a fairly minimal linux on it (IE
embedded CLFS) - just enough to run texlive and emacs. I assume there
are CF cards big enough for a minimal system plus enough of a texmf
(full texmf maybe even, but I wouldn't need a full texmf).
Connect to the beagle from the palm using my nice foldout palm keyboard.
The advantage would be I wouldn't have to strap a laptop case to the
back of my bicycle just to work at the coffee shop, it looks like
everything would fit inside a fanny pack.
The disadvantage, I'm not sure how fast the thing would be at running
pdflatex to generate my book, but 99% of the time I would be in the text
editor anyway - I only occasionally run a compile to check my TeX syntax
from time to time (and the real purpose is usually to just take a mental
break from writing).
I understand checking the typesetting on a Palm is not ideal due to the
small screen, but for draft working copies, it probably is fine.
The biggest hitch - it seems that there are not TLive 2008 binaries for
Linux ARM. However, it looks like Debian has them, so I could probably
steal their binaries and just make sure I have the necessary shared
libraries.
Does this sound absolutely crazy and way too far fetched of a thing to
try? Has anyone else done something like this?
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