teTeX (stylised as ) was a TeX distribution for Unix-like systems. As of May 2006, teTeX is no longer actively maintained and its former maintainer Thomas Esser recommended TeX Live as the replacement.teTeX Home Page (Retrieved January 31, 2007) During installation of TexLive it is possible to choose scheme that would include teTeX packages.
The teTeX package is available as a package for system architectures:The TeX Live Guide Linux (x86, SPARC, PowerPC, Alpha) macOS (x86, PowerPC) Solaris (x86, SPARC)
Other supported operating systems include: OpenBSD and FreeBSD (on x86 architectures) IBM AIX on (RS/6000) HP-UX (on HPPA) Microsoft Windows (on 32-bit systems) BeOS (for Intel x86)
History Thomas Esser maintained teTeX from 1994 until May, 2006.Guide to teTeX Documentation (Retrieved January 31, 2007) According to Esser, the time taken to package each successive release took longer than the previous.Thomas EsserInterviewTeX Users Group It has been superseded by TeX Live, a "comprehensive TeX system for most types of Unix, including Linux and Mac OS X, and also Windows".TeX Live home page (Retrieved January 31, 2007) The goals of the teTeX project were to be easy, use free software, be well-documented, avoiding bugs along the way.
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External links teTeX home page TeX newsgroup teTeX Documentation teTeX FAQ