Well, a long time has been around since teTeX-1.0 ... I hereby proudly
present:

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                           teTeX 2.0
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  This is the announce of teTeX-2.0, a TeX distribution for UNIX
  compatible systems.


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  Main features of teTeX-2.0:
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- included files reviewed for license problems; teTeX now is free software!
- program packages: web2c 7.4.5, pdfTeX 1.10a, e-TeX 2.1,  Omega 1.23.2.1,
  xdvik 22.40v, dvipsk 5.92b, dviljk 2.6p2, dvipdfm 0.13.2c, ps2pk 1.5,
  makeindex 2.14, texinfo 4.4, texconfig 2.0, updmap 2.0, texdoctk
- main TeX formats:
  plain.tex 3.14159265, LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>, ConTeXt 2003.1.31
- TDS (TeX Directory Structure) compliant support tree
  with fonts / macros / documentation: 150 MB, >11000 files
- easy to install and to customize, even for a multi-platform setup
- ready for producing resolution independent (bitmap free) postscript or
  pdf documents (including thumbnails, hyperlinks and bookmarks)

For release notes, please look at ./NEWS inside the tetex-src tarball.


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  Legal notice / license
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  teTeX is free software. Individual files and sub-packages are copyright
  by different authors, but I have taken care that everything is free
  software as defined by the free software foundation:
      http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html


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  The files / installation
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  You can get teTeX-2.0 from the following server:
    ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/2.0/distrib/   (UK)

  Other servers will follow shortly:
    ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/2.0/distrib/ (GER)
    ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/2.0/distrib/   (US)

  A full list of mirrors is available here:
    ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/CTAN.sites

  From these servers, you need the following files for teTeX-2.0:

  sources of the programs (required):
    ==> tetex-src-2.0.tar.gz

  support tree with fonts / macros (required):
    ==> tetex-texmf-2.0.tar.gz

  sources for parts of the texmf tarball (optional):
    ==> tetex-texmfsrc-2.0.tar.gz

  The installation instructions are included in the tetex-src.tar.gz
  archive as files INSTALL (complete instructions) and QuickInstall
  (short version).


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  Windows and MacOS X versions
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  I don't maintain such ports myself, but you can get them here:
    Windows (win32)            http://www.fptex.org/
    MacOS X (darwin)           http://www.rna.nl/tex.html


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  Documentation / getting started
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  teTeX contains a lot of documentation about the packages it includes.
  For a start, please look at
    texmf/doc/tetex/TETEXDOC.{ps,pdf,dvi}
  and
    texmf/doc/index.html
  texmf means the directory in which you have unpacked the tetex-texmf
  tarball during the installation process


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  De-support of repacked and binary distribution
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  Unlike previous releases, I don't plan to make binary releases or
  sub-packges of the texmf tarball. Lots of other projects and people
  provide teTeX in repacked and compiled form and I am willing to maintain
  links to such resources on teTeX's web page. I think that I will do
  a better service to the TeX community by concentrating on the three
  tarballs (src, texmf, texmfsrc) and shorter release cycles, than by
  providing binaries and repacking the distribution.


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  Mailing lists / web pages:
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  Mailing lists:
    for discussion:    tetex@dbs.uni-hannover.de
    for announcements: tetex-announce@dbs.uni-hannover.de

  Related web pages:
    http://tug.org/teTeX/
    http://www.pdftex.org/
    http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
    http://www.dante.de/
    http://tug.org/
    http://www.pragma-ade.com/

Have fun!

Thomas Esser, February 2003