[OS X TeX] pdftex 1.20a

Siep Kroonenberg siepo at cybercomm.nl
Wed Oct 13 17:43:01 CEST 2004


On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:51:08AM +1000, Ross Moore wrote:
> 
> On 13/10/2004, at 6:56 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> 
> >I wonder though what kind of TeX distro the boxed Linuxes come with 
> >these days. Probably not that recent as this stuff ;-)
> 
> Mostly they'll come with whatever is available at Debian.
> That tends to be quite a ways behind TeXLive, and seems
> to have an update cycle of ~3 years.
> 
> It takes an enthusiastic sysadmin to keep a local Linux
> site at the cutting-edge!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 	Ross

Mandrake 10.0 and the upcoming Debian Sarge both have last year's
teTeX 2.02.

Tracking Debian unstable if a perfectly reasonable option if you
need cutting edge stuff.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg
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