The first free distribution for the Macintosh. OzTeXĪ TeX distribution for Mac OS up to version 9 (but still runs on some older versions of Mac OS X).
gwTeXĪ defunct TeX distribution for Mac OS X once maintained by Gerben Wierda. It adds some features to TeX Live for better compatibility with the OS. MacTeX ( )Įssentially the same as TeX Live, but only for Mac OS X. proTeXtĪ TeX distribution for Windows, essentially MiKTeX with something added. Recently it has also been ported to Linux and macOS. Many Windows users prefer it to TeX Live for ease of installation because it is based on a Windows Wizard. MiKTeX ( )Ī TeX distribution for Windows actively maintained by Christian Schenk. emTeXĪ defunct TeX distribution for MS-DOS and OS/2. fpTeXĪ defunct TeX distribution for Windows. On some flavors of Unix one needed to compile the binaries, though.
It was based on Web2C like TeX Live, and provided some tar archives to just download and install. Perhaps the first TeX distribution in modern terms. teTeXĪ defunct TeX distribution once maintained by Thomas Esser, for Unix systems. Some GNU/Linux distributions provide it in their packaging framework (Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE,…), but these prepackaged versions usually lag behind the basic one.
The distribution of choice on all operating systems. The better maintained TeX distribution, with tens of developers. Yours is a list of free TeX distributions.
