[pdftex] Latest version

[G. D. Brettschneider]

JC> Where can I find the latest stable versions of pdftex
JC> and pdfetex for a Linux system?

BC> This guy is not alone (...) It seems like a classic case 
BC> where fifty keystrokes by the maintainers of the web sites 
BC> could save many people many hours of frustration.

SR> if you could just define what the 50 keystrokes are?

RF> i could, at the expense of a few keystrokes (as you so rightly
RF> observe) create an fs link to one of these directories. i could even
RF> possibly make it propagate a bit around ctan. but it would disappear
RF> within 24 hours, unless i took steps to ensure that all the ctan
RF> sites, in parallel, updated their mirror parameters

Jesus! Sounds as if you're struggling around with a kind of monster 
system that one better doesn't ever change...

However, I see that Sebastian succeeded in updating his small link list 
at www.pdftex.org only two and a half weeks ago.

I think this would be the right place to execute the 50 keystrokes in 
order to add a few links to the latest binary and pool files because 
many people won't like to download 15MB of TeXLive sources (which are 
listed there at first position) to get them.

Gerolf