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Added paragraph situating ConTeXt Standalone w.r.t. TeXlive
{{Note | ConTeXt develops at a fast pace, and sometimes beta releases have serious bugs. ConTeXt standalone allows you to test the latest ConTeXt release without having to worry if an upgrade will mess an critical project. You can have two (or multiple) parallel ConTeXt Standalones, and freeze one for your critical projects, and use the other one for experimenting.}}
ConTeXt is also included in TeXlive. The ConTeXt Standalone distribution is updated continuously, whereas ConTeXt in TeXlive is updated less often. In particular, luatex and metapost are under active development and their binaries are updated frequently. ConTeXt follows these developments, indeed often drives development. As the binaries included in the TeXlive distribution are only updated yearly, ConTeXt on TeXlive will necessarily be less current than the ConTeXt Standalone distribution. (ConTeXt on TeXlive can be kept somewhat more current using the http://tlcontrib.metatex.org repository.)
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