Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond

[Dr Nicholas Bailey]

Watch out for Debian. There isn't a Lilypond in Testing (Stretch) AFAIK. It's 
because they've removed the old scheme version. I develop in Testing in the 
hope that by the time I get around to releasing anything, it will be 
compatible with Stable :) Stable released rather infrequently, but I use it on 
our servers and it is very, well, *stable*.

It's easy to install the Stable lilypond debian package on a Testing Debian 
box, fortunately. Debian is my favourite distro: I've tried others but always 
returned. Shame about the scheme thing, but it will sort itself out sooner or 
later (if it hasn't already!). I guess the clue's in the distribution name: 
"Testing" ;)

Nick/.

On Friday, 23 December 2016 22:37:32 GMT David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 24 Dec 2016 at 13:06:23 (+1000), Craig Dabelstein wrote:
> > Hi Lilyponders,
> > 
> > Just a quick question. I'm taking the plunge and moving to Linux. Which
> > distro would you recommend for running Lilypond and Frescobaldi?
> 
> I don't know where you're moving from, but I think you should choose
> your distribution on what you and your computer find most comfortable
> to use.
> 
> Assuming you're coming from, say, windows or a mac, you would probably
> run a Desktop Environment, in which case the choice of DE could be as
> important as the distribution.
> 
> OTOH with an older machine that's past being able to run windows,
> Frescobaldi should run happily on X and the simplest of Window
> Managers, like fvwm for example (and maybe a DE too).
> 
> The version of LP that the distribution supports can be made
> irrelevant by downloading it/them from the lilypond.org website,
> and I assume the same goes for F. (Debian stable, currently jessie,
> will always bundle comparatively old versions of software.)
> So I would say that you should sort out your platform first.
> 
> (I wasn't aware of oddities with OpenSuse Leap 42.1, nor whether these
> involved only its bundled versions or all versions.)
> 
> Cheers,
> David.
> 
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