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+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label syswin32</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>(Modern) Windows systems</h3>
+<p/>Windows users nowadays have a real choice, between two excellent
+distributions, MiKTeX and TeX Live. TeX Live on windows has
+only in recent years been a real challenger to the long-established
+MiKTeX, and even now MiKTeX has features that TeX Live lacks,
+while TeX Live offers a <a href="FAQ-luatex.html">LuaTeX</a> implementation,
+which MiKTeX lacks (though it is present in MiKTeX 2.9, in
+beta-release at the time of writing). Both are comprehensive
+distributions, offering all the established TeX variants (TeX,
+PDFTeX &#8212; both with e-TeX variants &#8212; 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 &#8220;up-to-date&#8221;, 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 &#8212;
+version 2.9, still in beta release at the time of writing &#8212; 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&#8217;s &#8220;portable&#8221; 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/>
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+<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>