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TeX Live is a TeX

TeX

TeX is a typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth. Together with the METAFONT language for font description and the Computer Modern typefaces, it was designed with two main goals in mind: to allow anybody to produce high-quality books using a reasonable amount of effort, and to provide a system that would give the exact...
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Software distribution

A software distribution, also referred to as a software distro, is a bundle of a specific software , already compiled and configured. It is generally the closest thing to a turnkey form of a usually GNU General Public License, free software source code for a software....
which is advertised as the replacement of its no-longer supported counterpart teTeX

TeTeX

teTeX is a TeX software 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 As of May 2006 teTeX is no longer actively maintained and its former maintainer Thomas Esser recommended TeX Live as the replacement....
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TeX Live has been developed since 1996 by collaboration among the TeX user groups worldwide, including the TeX Users Group. It follows the TeX Directory Structure

TeX Directory Structure

TeX Directory Structure is a directory hierarchy for macros, fonts, and the other implementation-independent TeX systemfiles. The top-level directories are...
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TeX Live is a TeX

TeX

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TeTeX

TeX Directory Structure

TeX Directory Structure is a directory hierarchy for macros, fonts, and the other implementation-independent TeX systemfiles. The top-level directories are...
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