`unixtex.ftp': Obtaining TeX
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This is `ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/unixtex.ftp', last updated 13 June 2010.
Also available as `http://www.tug.org/unixtex.ftp'.  Email
<tex-k@tug.org> with comments or questions.

   The principal free TeX distribution for Unix-like systems is TeX
Live, on the web at `http://tug.org/texlive'.  The pages there describe
many ways to acquire TeX, over the Internet or on physical media, both
the sources and precompiled binaries for many systems, either
standalone or as part of various operating system distributions.

   Web2C, Kpathsea, Dvips, and Dviljk are no longer released as a
separate packages.  Their sources are now maintained as part of TeX
Live.

   The host ftp.cs.stanford.edu is the original source for the files
for which Donald Knuth is directly responsible: `tex.web', `plain.tex',
etc. However, unless you want to build your TeX library tree ab initio,
it is more reliable and less work to retrieve these files as part of a
larger package. In any case, that ftp site is not the canonical source
for anything except what was created as part of Stanford TeX project,
so do not rely on the other files available there being up-to-date.