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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:
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<tr><td>TeX Live</td><td>a lot</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/texlive/ tug.org/texlive]</td><td>web2c, based on teTeX and fpTeX; no has installer on Windowsand a package manger.</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>teTeX</td><td>Linux, Unix</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/tetex/ tug.org/tetex]</td><td>web2c; not supported any more, TeX Live is recommended instead.</td></tr><tr><td>fpTeX</td><td>Win32</td><td>[httphttps://wwwxemtex.groups.foundry.fptexsupelec.org fptexfr/xemtex-web-gb-2-5.orghtml xemtex]</td><td>web2cnot maintained any more, based on teTeXsee XEmTeX</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>XEmTeX</td><td>Win</td><td>[https://xemtex.groups.foundry.supelec.fr/xemtex-web-gb-2-1.html xemtex]</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>MikTeX</td><td>Win</td><td>[http://www.miktex.org/ miktex.org]</td><td>with GUI</td></tr><trstyle="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>proTeXt</td><td>Win</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/protext/ tug.org/protext]</td><td>based on MikTeX, bundled with TeX Live</td></tr><tr><td>W32TeX</td><td>Win</td><td>[http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp/kakuto/win32-ptex/web2c75-e.html fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp]</td><td>with XeTeX and the latest ConTeXt</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><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 ("i-Installer"). Now unsupported</td></tr><tr><td>MacTeX</td><td>MacOS X</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/mactex/ tug.org/mactex]</td><td>web2c, based on TeX Live; comfortable install. Actually the simplest MacOSX install.</td></tr><trstyle="background-color:#EEEEEE"><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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* You should enable write18 in <tt>miktex.ini</tt> (MikTeX's counterpart to [[texmf.cnf]]) to get MetaPost support working.
==alternative TeX processorsengines==
TeX the program writes only DVI output; with ConTeXt we normally use pdfeTeX[[PdfTeX|pdfTeX]], a merger of eTeX and pdfTeX &#150; it's nowadays probably the most used TeX processor [[LuaTeX]] or [[XeTeX]] and part of all(?) distributions. But there are more..generate PDF.
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<tr style="background-color:#DDDDDD"><th>Name</th><th>OS</th><th>ConTeXt</th><th>Homepage</th><th>Remarks</th></tr><tr><td>pdf(e)TeX<b>[[PdfTeX - Old Content|pdfTeX]]</b></td><td>"all"</td><td align="center">Yes</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]; [http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=luatex development frozen], see LuaTeX</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>MetaTeX<b>[[LuaTeX]]</b></td><td>"all"</td><tdalign="center">POSIXYes</td><td>[http://www.metatexluatex.org metatex/ luatex.org]</td><td>tries to provide a fast extended version of pdfTeX, MetaPost etc. and kpathsea replacement as C libraries (pre-alpha state)using Lua</td></tr><tr><td>NTS<b>[[XeTeX]]</b></td><td>Java"all"</td><td align="center">Yes</td><td>[http://wwwscripts.dantesil.deorg/CTANcms/scripts/systems/nts/ CTANpage.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex sil.org]</td><td>OO resupports OpenType and all other fonts installed on OS, Unicode, bidirectional typesetting, Mac special features; Windows version not officially released yet -implementation of TeX in Java as a base for further enhancementssee W32TeX above</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>ExTeXNTS</td><td>Java</td><td align="center">No</td><td>[http://www.extexdante.orgde/CTAN//systems/nts/ extex.orgCTAN]</td><td>merger OO re-implementation of NTS with eTeXTeX in Java as a base for further enhancements; discontinued, pdfTeX and Omega (pre-alpha state)see ExTeX</td></tr><tr><td>AlephExTeX</td><td>Java</td><td align="allcenter"?>No</td><td>[http://www.danteextex.deorg/CTAN//systems/aleph/ CTANextex.org]</td><td>merger of NTS with eTeX, pdfTeX and Omega/eTeX merge (former eOmega) by Giuseppe Bilotta (beta pre-alpha state)</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>[[XeTeXAleph]]</td><td>MacOS X"all"?</td><td align="center">Yes</td><td>[http://scriptswww.sildante.orgde/CTAN//cmssystems/scriptsaleph/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex sil.orgCTAN]</td><td>uses Mac special features; bidirectional typesetting; supported Omega/eTeX merge (former eOmega) by ConTeXt since [[Context 2004.10.07]]Giuseppe Bilotta (beta state)</td></tr>
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