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Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: Which Linux distro for Lilypond
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 18:27:32 +0100 (CET)

>> OpenSuSE, I'd recommend to use the Tumbleweed variant. It's a good
>> distribution, and a nice feature for developers is that it allows
>> easy parallel installation of guile 1 and 2.
>
> Unfortunately, as always, there are trade-offs.  I'm a SuSE guy
> myself (back from SuSE 5.4 days iirc the version correctly!), but
> I've had a fair bit of trouble with SuSE and lilypond.

Hmm, using SuSE even longer, I have never had any problems by
compiling lilypond git by myself (both `make all' and `make doc' work
for me just fine).

> I need VirtualBox, which Tumbleweed explicitly does NOT support, and
> my systems now run gentoo - precisely because I could not get the
> then latest lilypond to install on the then latest SuSE :-(

Never tried that :-)

> (Plus 42.2 doesn't seem to like my laptop that much :-(

Well, I'm still waiting with an update for exactly such reasons...


    Werner



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