The TeX Collection 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 as the TeX system and TeXStudio (formerly known as TeXMakerX) as the included editor.
Installation is done through a standard Setup.exe in the DVD's protext directory to install and uninstall the proTeXt components. The manual is available in PDF, currently in English and German.
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 texlive/readme-html.dir/readme.en.html. For translations to other languages refer to texlive/index.html.
See The TeX Live Guide for the list of platforms for which executables are included.
MacTeX is a complete TeX distribution for MacOSX containing all of TeX Live, but with a native Mac installer and other Mac-specific packages included. It is in the mactex directory on the DVD.
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 June 2012. The snapshot is located in DVD's directory ctan. You may find further information in ctan/README.HTML.
This DVD was made possible by the help of several volunteers:
The support from the following companies and organizations was also essential for the creation of this DVD.
The TeX Collection DVD is distributed by TUG in the United States, and DANTE in Germany. The DVD is also distributed by many local TeX user groups, including TUG and DANTE, to their members.
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.