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< [[Installation hints]] | [[Update Hints]] | [[Linux Installation]] >
Historically there were a lot of different TeX distributions. Nowadays there are only a few wide spread. We mention only those that are free and support ConTeXt:
<tr><td>fpTeX</td><td>Win32</td><td>[http://www.fptex.org fptex.org]</td><td>web2c, based on teTeX</td></tr>
<tr><td>MikTeX</td><td>Win</td><td>[http://www.miktex.org/ miktex.org]</td><td>with GUI</td></tr>
<tr><td>gwTeX</td><td>MacOS X</td><td>[http://www.rna.nl/tex.html rna.nl]</td><td>web2c, based on TeX Live, ; comfortable install and update GUI</td></tr>
<tr><td>minimal ConTeXt</td><td>Win, Lin, Mac</td><td>[http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/ pragma-ade.com]</td><td>web2c</td></tr>
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* use <tt>mktexlsr</tt> (same as <tt>texhash</tt>) to rebuild the file database after every install or change!
* '''Beware''', older web2c distributions keep ConTeXt’s (Perl/Ruby) scripts at <tt>.../context/perltk</tt>, newer at <tt>.../scripts/Perl/context</tt>! Make sure to delete the older ones!See also [[Update Hints]]
==MikTeX hints==
<tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><th>Name</th><th>OS</th><th>Homepage</th><th>Remarks</th></tr>
<tr><td>pdf(e)TeX</td><td>"all"</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/ pdftex.org]</td><td>latest version at [http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdftex/ freshmeat] or [http://pdftex.sarovar.org sarovar]</td></tr>
<tr><td>MetaTeX</td><td>POSIX</td><td>[http://www.metatex.org metatex.org]</td><td>tries to provide a fast pdfTeX, MetaPost etc. and kpathsea relacement replacement as C libraries (pre-alpha state)</td></tr>
<tr><td>NTS</td><td>Java</td><td>[http://www.dante.de/CTAN//systems/nts/ CTAN]</td><td>OO re-implementation of TeX in Java as a base for further enhancements</td></tr>
<tr><td>ExTeX</td><td>Java</td><td>[http://www.extex.org/ extex.org]</td><td>merger of NTS with eTeX, pdfTeX and Omega (pre-alpha state)</td></tr>

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