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A shorter and clearer discription of the minimals
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The '''ConTeXt Minimal''' is a complete, up-to-date ConTeXt distribution that* Includes the latest binaries of all TeX engines: pdfTeX, luaTeX, and XeTeXwhich can be upgraded efficiently.* Includes It can be used to install either the latest stable & or the beta version of ConTeXt. You It can choose which one to install.* Provides an efficient update mechanism* Can also be used in parallel with existing TeX installtions such as MikTeX, TeXLive, or older minimal installation. Having multiple It is aimed towards ConTeXt users, so it does not include LaTeX specific packages and binaries.  {{Note | ConTeXt minimal installations is useful if you have develops at a critical project fast pace, and do not want sometimes beta releases have serious bugs. ConTeXt minimals allow you to test the latest ConTeXt release without having to worry if an upgrade will mess with you ConTeXt installation for itan critical project. You can keep have two (or multiple) parallel ConTeXt minimals, and freeze one minimal distribution frozen for your projectcritical projects, and can use another the other one to use a up-to-date ConTeXtfor experimenting.}}* Does not need root privileges to be installed* Takes reasonable amount of space* Does not include any LaTeX packages & binaries* Faster (due to smaller size)* Possible to make it even smaller by installing only luatex for example

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