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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label sysunix</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Unix and GNU Linux systems</h3>
+<p/><blockquote>
+ Note that Mac OS/X, though it is also a Unix-based system, has
+ different options; users should refer to the information in
+ <a href="FAQ-sysmac.html">Mac systems</a>.
+</blockquote><p>
+<p/>The TeX distribution of choice, for Unix systems (including
+GNU/Linux and most other free Unix-like systems) is TeX Live,
+which is distributed as part of the <a href="FAQ-CD.html">TeX collection</a>.
+<p/>TeX Live may also be installed &#8220;over the network&#8221;; a network
+installer is provided, and once you have a system (whether network- or
+offline-installed) a manager (<i>tlmgr</i>) can both keep your
+installation up-to-date and add packages you didn&#8217;t install at first.
+<p/>TeX Live may be run with no installation at all; the web page
+<a href="http://www.tug.org/texlive/portable.html">TeX Live portable usage</a>
+describes the options for installing TeX Live on a memory stick for
+use on another computer, or for using the TeX Live DVD with
+no installation at all.
+<p/>TeX-gpc is a &#8220;back-to-basics&#8221; distribution of TeX utilities,
+<em>only</em> (unlike TeX Live, no &#8216;tailored&#8217; package bundles are
+provided). It is distributed as source, and compiles with GNU
+Pascal, thereby coming as close as you&#8217;re likely to get to Knuth&#8217;s original
+distribution. It is known to work well, but the omission of e-TeX
+and PDFTeX will rule it out of many users&#8217; choices.
+<p/>A free version of the commercial
+<a href="FAQ-commercial.html">VTeX extended TeX system</a> is available for
+use under Linux. VTeX, among other things, specialises in direct
+production of PDF from (La)TeX input. Sadly, it&#8217;s no longer
+supported, and the ready-built images are made for use with a rather
+ancient Linux kernel.
+<p/>Finally, the developer of MiKTeX has released a port of the
+PDFTeX executable from of that excellent (Windows) system for use
+on Linux; get it via
+<a href="http://miktex.org/unx/">the MiKTeX site</a>. The MiKTeX
+package manager (<i>mpm</i>), for Linux, is also available from
+the same place.
+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>tex-gpc</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/unix/tex-gpc.zip">systems/unix/tex-gpc</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/unix/tex-gpc/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/tex-gpc.html">catalogue entry</a>
+<dt><tt><i>texlive</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive">systems/texlive</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/texlive.html">catalogue entry</a>
+<dt><tt><i>texlive installer (Unix)</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz">systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz</a>
+<dt><tt><i>vtex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/vtex/linux.zip">systems/vtex/linux</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/vtex/linux/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/vtex-free.html">catalogue entry</a>
+<dt><tt><i>vtex required common files</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/vtex/common.zip">systems/vtex/common</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/vtex/common/">browse the directory</a>)
+</dl>
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=sysunix">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=sysunix</a>
+</body>