TeX Live

TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with TeX. It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavors of Unix, including GNU/Linux, and also Windows. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including support for many languages around the world.

• Downloads and other means of obtaining TeX Live.
• Documentation.
• Quick install for Unix; installation and release notes for Windows; for MacOSX, see the MacTeX distribution.
• Highlights of changes in the current release, and known bugs,
• TeX Live licensing, and integration with operating system distributions.
• Source repository, and building the sources.
• How you can help.

Some starting points for actually using TeX are in this introduction to the TeX system.

TeX Live has been developed since 1996 by collaboration between the TeX user groups. TeX Live was originally perpetrated by Sebastian Rahtz. Present miscreants are Karl Berry, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard, Norbert Preining, Peter Breitenlohner, Reinhard Kotucha, Siep Kroonenberg, Staszek Wawrykiewicz, Vladimir Volovich, and a cast of thousands.