The TeX Live CD
TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with TeX. It provides a comprehensive TeX system for most types of Unix, including GNU/Linux and MacOSX, and also Windows. It includes all major freely-available TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts, including support for many languages around the world. TeX Live 2005 was distributed on DVD and CD in December 2005 to members of most TeX user groups, as a principal part of the TeX Collection. The last update of packages and programs was made on 1 November 2005. For more recent versions, please consult CTAN."
Posted Jun 22, 2006 13:56 UTC (Thu)
by nicku (guest, #777)
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Linux distributions will also need to decide how to package TeX. I hope that distributors have a coherent response to this, as using a LaTeX package that was in teTeX was reasonably safe. It seems to me that having a consistent core number of LaTeX packages is quite important.
Posted Jun 23, 2006 16:16 UTC (Fri)
by kmccarty (subscriber, #12085)
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I don't know about other distributions, but as chronicled on the Debian TeX mailing list, Debian developers have been working on packaging TeX Live, in close collaboration with the upstream maintainers, for some time.
Posted Jun 24, 2006 4:42 UTC (Sat)
by nicku (guest, #777)
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It seems that we TeX users need to become more accustomed to The TeX Live CD, since Thomas Esser won't be maintaining teTeX any more.
The TeX Live CD
The TeX Live CD
The TeX Live CD
Debian developers have been working on packaging TeX Live, in close collaboration with the upstream maintainers, for some time.
I hope other Linux distros follow Debian's excellent lead, and cooperate together. The more standardised the list of LaTeX packages is, the greater the usefulness of LaTeX.