Re: LilyPond on Linux

[James Lowe]

Use virtual box.

It's very simple, free and doesn't require any special CPUs.

I use it all the time on windows 7 with the Lilybunto.iso which you can 
get from here:

http://prodet.hu/bert/lilydev/lilybuntu.iso

Although someone will need to confirm that you can run frescobaldi on 
this image.

You can get Virtual Box from here:

http://www.virtualbox.org/

I am no linux expert but had this up and running in less than an hour. I 
use 500mb of RAM for the Linux image and that is plenty with about 8GB 
for disk which is more than enough.

I don't use frescobaldi, as I have no problems with using gedit or 
similar. I much prefer it.

James


Marc Weber wrote:
> Excerpts from David Stocker's message of Fri Jan 01 15:33:38 +0100 2010:
> > The Dual-Boot would be an alternative to installing Kubuntu as a virtual 
> > machine.
> if your cpu doesn't support virtualizing you can also run colinux on
> Windows and use an X-Server such as Xming on Windows. Does not work with
> x68_64 cpus.
>
> frescobaldi is packaged by debian as well. I think colinux
> allows you to use some Linux images. I don't know how up to date they
> are though.
>
> Alternatives: Use any editor and autohotkey or such to automate
> closing pdf viewer and reopening it? Don't think you can replace .pdf
> file in place on windows as many applications do lock files (Foxit
> reader does)
>
> Marc Weber
>
>
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