TeX Collection 2009 contains four TeX products on a single DVD.
proTeXt is a TeX distribution for Microsoft Windows. It provides an easy installation even for less experienced users. The distribution is based on Christian Schenk's MiKTeX with additional tools:
proTeXt guides the installation via a PDF document (requires Acrobat Reader), which provides clickable links to install the various components, along with explanations.
By starting Setup.exe in the protext directory of the DVD you can choose between an English, French, German and Italian installation guide.
TeX Live is a complete TeX system for GNU/Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows.
The TeX Live system is located in directory texlive. Please change to this directory and run the script install-tl in this directory to start Unix installation or the batch script texlive/install-tl.bat for Windows.
Further information regarding TeX Live is available in the document texlive/readme-html.dir/readme.en.html. For translations to other languages refer to texlive/index.html.
TeX Live contains binaries for following systems:
MacTeX is a complete TeX distribution for MacOSX (both Intel and PowerPC), containing all of TeX Live, but with a native Mac installer and other Mac-specific packages included.
CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network, is a worldwide set of Internet servers making TeX software available. The DVD contains a snapshot of German CTAN node dante.ctan.org from November 2009. The snapshot is located in DVD's directory ctan. You may find further information in ctan/README.HTML.
This DVD was possible by the help of several volunteers:
The support from the following companies and organizations was also essential for the creation of this DVD.
TeX Collection 2009 is distributed by Lehmanns bookstore in Germany and TUG in the United States. The DVD is also distributed by many local TeX user groups, including DANTE and TUG, to their members.
We thank Russell Lang from Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd for his kind permission to include GSview on the DVD.
We encourage donations for MiKTeX development. Please refer to the MiKTeX homepage for details.
And we welcome donations to other TeX development projects via TUG's donation page.
Finally and most importantly, we encourage you to join your local TeX user group! Please see the list of worldwide TeX user groups.