Bug#312897: ITP: texlive -- The TeXlive system packaged for debian
Hallo Frank, hallo Adrian!
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
> TeX-Live exists for a couple of years now, and while it might gain some
> teTeX users, teTeX upstream is by no means dead. So for these users,
Definitely. Thomas is himself actively contributing to TeXlive.
> One other thing is that texlive's focus is on personal computers -
> Windows, Mac, and i386-Linux, while teTeX is a distribution for
> UNIX-like operating systems. I'm not an architecture expert, but I can
Well, this is not completely true. The list of architectures on which
TeXlive runs is quite impressive, I would say:
alpha-linux
i386-freebsd
i386-linux
mips-irix
powerpc-aix
powerpc-darwin
sparc-solaris
sparc64-linux
x86_64-linux
and in fact it should also contain i386-windows binaries.
(some version restrictions may apply)
And in fact this is also a reason for TeXlive, that it runs on so many
platforms. We are using it here on our institute were a file server
serves the whole of TeXlive via nfs to several clients.
Best wishes
Norbert
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