<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Hi<div><br></div><div>Sometimes I make or find the thing whose absence is blocking me. It's nice when this happens. In tomorrow's TeX Hour I will share what I've learnt about Distrobox, and how it will help me repackage TeX Live so that it can be stored and distributed using git as a distributed content addressable store. This is part of the foundation for Portable TeX Documents (PTD).</div><div><br></div><div>Software tools for creating accessible documents have many components. Reproducing this environment for others to use is hard work. Portable TeX Documents will make it much easier and quicker to get the environment needed for by source TeX document.</div><div><br></div><div>TeX Hour: Thursday 2 June, 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time.<br>Zoom URL: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09</a><br>UK Time Now: <a href="https://time.is/UK" target="_blank">https://time.is/UK</a>.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Here's the background. I've rebuilt my PC to have a 24-thread CPU, 64 GB of memory and 1 TB of NVME storage. The new parts (including motherboard and cooler) cost about £1,000. It's an upgrade from a machine built about 10 years ago, and I hope it will also last about 10 years. I'm keen to do large reproducible calculations, and to develop systems that work on multiple platforms. Setting things up now will bring benefits later (and soon, I hope). One is better understanding of the NVDA screen reader.</div><div><br></div><div>And here's why Distrobox. Yesterday in The Register I read:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">If you routinely have to work with multiple different distros [...] DistroBox could save you a fair amount of time and effort. The tool is intended to simplify the creation and use of Linux system containers, making it easy to run one distro on top of another without the overhead of virtual machines. </blockquote><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/31/distrobox_130_released/" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/31/distrobox_130_released/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://distrobox.privatedns.org/" target="_blank">https://distrobox.privatedns.org/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Recent TeX Hour video uploads</div><div>28 April: ConTeXt and LaTeX join forces?: <a href="https://youtu.be/kMdC413K7sY" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/kMdC413K7sY</a></div><div>28 April: Extra - about VMS: <a href="https://youtu.be/5Kk1hHIo3qU" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/5Kk1hHIo3qU</a></div><div>26 May: Access and Accessibility: <a href="https://youtu.be/LmZ39M_22eE" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/LmZ39M_22eE</a></div><div> </div><div>with best wishes</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div></div>
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