[tex-live] TeX Live 2016 binaries status, and TeX Live 2016 reaches some Linux distributions

[Vincent Torri]

Hello

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 1:35 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> I've made several reports on this list about building TeX Live 2016
> binary distributions for numerous platforms.  The current state of
> affairs is documented at
>
>         http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive/
>          ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive/

openindiana is mentioned only for i386 CPU and not x86_64. Is it normal ?

Vincent Torri

> in the top-level README.html file.  That page reports today a total of
> 88 systems, among them CentOS 7 on IBM POWER8 little-endian, and GNU
> Hurd on x86.
>
> As I was running system updates on various machines today, I noticed
> that TeX Live 2016 has finally reached some Linux distributions:
>
>         Kali Linux
>         Debian 8-testing
>         Debian 8-unstable
>
> All are on x86-64, but presumably there are, or will soon be,
> distributions for other supported CPUs.  On the Debian systems, I had
> to do "apt-get dist-upgrade" to get the latest TeX Live.
>
> I have several flavors of Ubuntu, which uses Debian-style packaging,
> but the latest version, 16.04 LTS (Long-Term Support -- to 2021), is
> still supplying TeX Live 2015.
>
> CentOS 7 (and thus, Red Hat 7 and Scientific Linux 7), the latest
> version in that popular distribution family, still has only TeX Live
> 2013.
>
> For another popular platform with commercial support, openSUSE 13, and
> 42.1 supply only TeX Live 2013.  However, the latest release, openSUSE
> TumbleWeed (rolling updates) has TeX Live 2015.
>
> I conclude that, although a few of us developers are at the latest TeX
> Live release, most of the (La)TeX users on the large installed based
> of Linux systems are years behind.
>
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