On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:24:05AM -0700, Bo Peng wrote: > => Have you considered adding LyX to a Knoppix cdrom and running that in a > > Microsoft machine? > > Reboot, writing something that can not be viewed and printed under > windows, no access to emails and other materials under windows, no way > to save personal lyx perference (I may be wrong here)? No, I > personally will not do this. > You can easily make a pdf with lyx, the pdf is view/printable under windows. Not editable though. And a .lyx-file is a textfile, so textual content _can_ be extracted in an emergency without the lyx binary. I agree that it won't be fun though.
Lyx preferences? Set things up so they're saved to the windows harddisk, or burn a set of perfect preferences onto your knoppix cd. Your windows files will generally be accessible from knoppix, unless they are on ntfs. Files on FAT or network servers are ok. Email? Access lost only if wmail is stored locally, which generally is a bad idea. (It makes replacing the pc harder, and may necessitate backups of the local disk . . .) If you use IMAP, then you can access your email from multiple operating systems, or multiple machines. The messages are stored on the server, not locally. The same goes for webmail-solutions. Helge Hafting
