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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> |