[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX for netbook OSes

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I'm considering buying a netbook for the express purpose of writing maths notes/articles (so as to not heft my Macbook around), hence (La)TeX is a must. The most obvious choice is to work with Linux, but failing that I was wondering if there is a LaTeX distribution for Chrome. And as I'm unfamiliar with the version/s of windows that appear on netbooks, would the usual distributions (MikTeX, say) work for them?

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Google Chrome OS is just a basic basic stuff that is needed to start the web browser, not much more.

My guess is to use something like the netbook edition of Ubuntu, that one has a gui that may fits those smaller screen quite well.

And the goodie is then that you can apt-get all the normal LaTeX packages that is present in the normal Ubuntu dist.

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As the comments indicate, it would help to know the operating system, but the answer for TeXlive (which is cross-platform), installed via the net installer, would be the "Basic Scheme" (See here for a listing of schemes). There is also a scheme called "minimal", but I think this would only give you support for plain TeX, not LaTeX.

If you're on linux, however, you might be more interested in what package distributed through your distro's repos is smallest. But then we need to know which distro. On mac, you might prefer the BasicTeX version of MacTeX, though this is by no means completely minimal. On Windows you might install the Basic MikTeX, and then not install any additional packages. (I don't think this is completely minimal either: if you really want minimal, TeXlive is probably your best bet anyway.)

Licensing conditions are not much of a factor here. All the basic stuff would be covered under the LPPL; it's only if you went beyond that there would be any issues.

[Tex/LaTex] In LaTeX distribution, which files are the mandatory files to compile a minimal LaTeX input file

make a testfile and run it with:

mkjobtexmf --jobname <file> --cmd-tex <latex>

<file> is your source file <latex> is your LaTeX command, e.g. pdflatex or simply latex. The Perl program mkjobtexmf creates a directory <file>.mjt which is a compatible texmf directory with all loaded files of your example.

If you are running windows then you'll need an installed Perl, e.g. from http://www.activestate.com/perl/

However, I never used it under Windows, with Linux it is very useful.

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