teTeX TeX Live CD launched

[Sebastian Rahtz]

I am very glad to announce the launch in Paris yesterday of TeX Live, a new
CD published by the TeX Users Group, the UK TeX Users Group and
GUTenberg (French TeX Users), with help from NTG (Dutch TeX Users) and
many individuals from other groups.

TeX Live's 649 megabytes contains:

 - a ready to run Unix TeX setup, Thomas Esser's teTeX (based on Karl
   Berry's Web2c). It has binaries for:
    Linux on Intel and m68k platforms;
    Irix 5.2, 5.3 on MIPS (SGI Indy/Indigo)
    SunOS 4.1.3 on Sun 
    Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 on SPARC
    HPUX 9.01, 10.01 for HP workstations
    Digital Unix (OSF/1) 2.0 and 3.2 for DEC Alpha machines
    FreeBSD and NetBSD on Intel platforms
    Ultrix 4.3, for DEC Decstation machines
    AIX 3.2, 4.1.1, for IBM RS6000 machines
    NeXTStep on Intel platforms
 - a large support tree of macros, fonts and documentation
    arranged according to the TeX Directory Structure layout
 - the GUTenberg Mac, DOS and Windows distributions (archived)

You can use the TeX system by running directly from the CD, installing
on your hard disk, or by adding packages to your existing system.

This is not a dump of CTAN full of compressed archives. This is a
*working* system. To make it useable under Unix, it uses the Rock
Ridge extensions to the ISO9660 file system. Ordinary systems can
still read it, but will not see the long file names or symbolic links.

If you are on any flavour of Unix, BUY this CD! There is no
complicated compilation or moving of installed files around, it will
just *WORK*.

More details, and ordering information, can be found at
http://www.tug.org/texlive.html. If you dont have WWW access, mail me
or tug@tug.org for details. Cost is around $20 for members of any TeX
users group, or $40 for others (the prices vary, depending on
postage). All profits from sales go back to fund new versions of the
CD, and to TeX-related development projects.

Sebastian Rahtz
Secretary, TeX Users Group