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LiveCDs

Live CDs with LyX

This page is intended to list "live CDs" with LyX, i.e. a CD that you can boot your computer from and then run LyX. Knoppix is one well known live CD.

TeaM-TL

Polish Live CD based on SLAX by Tomas Luczak. See LyxDevelThreadRoot:42467 where Tomas writes about a Live CD he has that is based on SLAX [slax.linux-live.org]. It uses Fluxbox as the Window Manager.

Some features of version 5.5.1 (note: the most recent version is 5.5.2):

• TeXLive 2005 (without noneuropean languages)
• LyX 1.3.5
• Kile 1.8.1

More info:

• http://team-tl.livenet.pl/index-eng.php?show=home-eng

Download the .iso image:

• ftp://ftp.gust.org.pl/pub/Projekty/Slax-TL/

Note: The installation defaults to Polish (locale pl_PL) and contains only polish translation. After booting you need to change the locale, e.g. through:

     export LC_ALL=en_US

From the website's FAQ: "Is posible change language into english? Yes, of course. 1. Before boot add boot parameter linux lang=en 2. After login run 00lang.sh. After you have to logout and login agin."

Knoppix

Knoppix contained LyX until version 3.3, included. According to the changelog, afterwards (2004-05-04) "the entire latex system (101MB) because of space reasons" was removed.

Recently (as of Juin 2008), the Knoppix 5.3.1 LiveDVD contains LyX. Among other, it contains the Xfce Desktop Environment.

• TeXLive 2007
• LyX 1.5.3
• Kile 2.0

Download (at least) from:

• ftp://ftp.knoppix.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/knoppix/knoppix-dvd

Also, there are plenty of Knoppix-based CDs that contain LyX (just google for knoppix+lyx). Some results:

• Quantian Scientific Linux (see bellow)
• GI-Knoppix (German Gymnasium Version) (see bellow)
• A script to create your own version of Knoppix

There is also a nice tutorial (in German) for writing a thesis with LyX from Knoppix (assuming a historic Knoppix release with LyX) on

   http://www.students.uni-marburg.de/~Fachs04/sw_os_lyx.html

Quantian

Quantian Scientific Linux is a Knoppix-based LiveDVD. Among others, the most recent version 0.7.9.2 ships:

• teTeX (don't know the version)
• LyX 1.3.6
• Kile 1.8.1

GI-Knoppix

GI-Knoppix (German Gymnasium Version) is a Knoppix-based LiveCD.

Knosciences & KnoMath

Knosciences & KnoMath are two Knoppix-based LiveCDs (apparently with English and French audiences, respectively), using Xfce4 for the Desktop Environment.
"Knosciences is a GNU/Linux Bootable CD for Education created by VERHILLE Arnaud."
"KnoMath est une distribution GNU/Linux sur CD de démarrage pour ordinateurs PC x86. C'est une plateforme scientifique mobile libre pour enseignants et étudiants de tout niveaux. Ce CD-Live vous est offert par Nathalie Carrié et Verhille Arnaud."

Both ship several useful TeX-related packages:

• teTeX 2.0.2
• Lyx 1.3.6
• Texmacs 1.0.6

The ("French") KnoMath also ships:

• Dia
• Texmaker

The applications selection differs a bit, so take the time to choose the right disc. KnoMath seems to provide more Office-related software.

Knoppix-based live CD with LyX by Miki Dovrat

Miki Dovrat (see this post) has created a live CD with LyX based on Knoppix. Unfortunately he has no place to host it (we might place it on the wiki). Mike wrote:

 I have taken the knoppix CD and remastered it (easy instructions on the
knoppix website, long and exhausting procedure) to include [=TeTex, LyX,

fonts, imagemagick, viewers, etc. I put Open-office on it so I could read Word documents, and I even had room to spare so I included Octave, Grace, and Gnuplot. All these things are all prepackaged in the Debian distribution, including all fonts required (The Hebrew fonts for TeX I had to get from somewhere else and install, they even might have been packaged in Debian as well, but anyway, Debian has a "alien" command to install "alien" packages), so the procedure is straightforward (no compilation), you just have to choose the packages from the installation program ("aptitude", apt-get). It is a "smart" program that takes care of pre-requisites and downloads all needes extra libraries for you as well.

When I did this, only lyx 1.3.4 was packaged so I used that instead of compiling 1.3.5, which was a week old at the time.

I also removed all games, some foreign (for me) language support (fonts and dictionaries of German, French, etc.) and other programs I didn't care for to make room.

If it is of any interest, I could upload the CD image to somewhere. You can always take this image as a starting point instead of the original Knoppix (for example if you really miss the European language dictionaries for OpenOffice and the spellers)

I don't have anywhere to put 700MB (the uncompressed version is 2GB). =]

6/3/05

I will try to remaster it again with the most recent versions (of Knoppix and Lyx) and maybe post a script rather than an image... Miki

Creating a Slax CD

Slax is a liveCD that is very easy to customize. You can download the iso image file from http://www.slax.org and there you can also download modules...including lyx 1.4.2. Then, when you wish to create your custom liveCD including lyx, use Myslax creator (a Windows program) -- http://myslax.bonsonno.org/download.php -- which will super-easily let you create your liveCD with lyx. This is the only way to currently create a 1.4.x series lyx liveCD. Make sure to get the modules for all of lyx´s dependencies and also to get XPDF.

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