TeX, Lies, and Yellow Dog Linux

[Laurent Lacroix]

On 17 Mar 2004, at 15:52, Donu Arapura wrote:

>
>
>> MacDevCenter has posted a part 2 to LaTeX (see 
>> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/05/latex.html).  Which 
>> covers the basic of LaTeX.
>> ...
>
> I realize this topic is fairly old, but I haven't looked at this
> list lately. Anyway this comment is only indirectly related.
>
> I use latex under yellowdog on an old G4 desktop (450 Mhz,448 ram)
> and macosx on a new powerbook (1.25 Ghz G4, 1Gb ram). My setup
> for  macosx is similar to the one described above. The
> powerbook is lot faster for most things, as one would expect.
> However, (la)tex is an exception; it seems to run a bit faster
> on the old yellowdog machine. For the book that I'm working on,
> about 11sec vs 13sec if I compile the whole thing in one run
> (usually I compile only a chapter at time).
>
> Don't get me wrong, I like macosx, but linux does seem to have
> a lot less overhead. I wouldn't dream of putting macox on my
> desktop G4.
>
> - Donu
>
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