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Both are comprehensive +distributions, offering all the established TeX variants (TeX, +PDFTeX — both with e-TeX variants — and XeTeX), together +with a wide range of support tools. +<p/>Both MiKTeX and TeX Live offer management tools, including the +means of keeping an installation “up-to-date”, by reinstalling +packages that have been updated on CTAN (the delay between a +package update appearing, and it being available to the distribution +users) can be as short as a day (and is never very long). +<p/>MiKTeX, by Christian Schenk, is the longer-established of the pair, +and has a large audience of satisfied users; TeX Live is the +dominant distribution in use in the world of Unix-like systems, and so +its Windows version may be expected to appeal to those who use both +Unix-like and Windows systems. The latest release of MiKTeX — +version 2.9, still in beta release at the time of writing — requires +Windows XP, or later; it does not work on Windows 2000 or earlier. +<p/>Both distributions may be used in a configuration which involves no +installation at all. MiKTeX’s “portable” distribution may be +unpacked on a memory stick, and used on any windows computer without +making any direct use of the hard drive. 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, or +for using the TeX Live DVD with no installation at all. +<p/>Both MiKTeX and TeX Live may be downloaded and installed, package +by package, over the net. This is a mammoth undertaking, only to be +undertaken by those with a good network connection (and a patient +disposition!). +<p/>A ready-to-run copy of the MiKTeX distribution, +on DVD may be bought via the +<a href="http://www.miktex.org/cd/">MiKTeX web site</a>. MiKTeX may +also be installed using ProTeXt, on the +<a href="FAQ-CD.html">TeX Collection DVD</a>. +<p/>The <a href="FAQ-CD.html">TeX Collection DVD</a> also provides an +offline installer for TeX Live. +<p/><a href="http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/xemtex/">XEmTeX</a>, by +Fabrice Popineau (he who created the excellent, but now defunct, +fpTeX distribution), is another integrated distribution of TeX, +LaTeX, ConTeXt, <i>XEmacs</i> and other friends for Windows. +All programs have been compiled natively to take the best advantage of +the Windows environment. Configuration is provided so that the +resulting set of programs runs out-of-the-box, but the distribution is +not actively promoted. +<p/> + + + + + + + + + + + +<p/>A further (free) option is available thanks to the +<a href="http://www.cygwin.com">CygWin bundle</a>, which presents a +Unix-like environment in Windows systems (and also provides an +X-windows server). The (now obsolete) teTeX distribution is +provided as part of the CygWin distribution, but there is a CygWin +build of TeX Live so you can have a current TeX system. TeX +under CygWin is reputedly somewhat slower than native Win32 +implementations such as MiKTeX, and of course the TeX +applications behave like Unix-system applications. +<p/>BaKoMa TeX, by Basil Malyshev, is a comprehensive (shareware) +distribution, which focuses on support of Acrobat. The distribution +comes with a bunch of Type 1 fonts packaged to work with BaKoMa +TeX, which further the focus. +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>bakoma</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/bakoma">systems/win32/bakoma</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/bakoma.html">catalogue entry</a> +<dt><tt><i>miktex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex.zip">systems/win32/miktex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/miktex.html">catalogue entry</a>; + acquire <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex/setup/setup.exe">systems/win32/miktex/setup/setup.exe</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/miktex.html">catalogue entry</a> (also available from the MiKTeX + web site), and read installation instructions from + <a href="http://www.miktex.org/2.8/setup">the MiKTeX installation page</a> +<dt><tt><i>Portable miktex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex/setup/miktex-portable.exe">systems/win32/miktex/setup/miktex-portable.exe</a> +<dt><tt><i>protext.exe</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/protext">systems/win32/protext</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/protext.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 (Windows)</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl.zip">systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl.zip</a> +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=syswin32">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=syswin32</a> +</body> |