TeTeX

An unmaintained TeX software tooling

teTeX

Developer(s)	Thomas Esser

Final release	3.0

Operating system	Unix-like
Successor	TeX Live
Type	TeX distribution
Website	www.tug.org/tetex/

teTeX (stylised as teTeX) was a TeX distribution for Unix-like systems. As of May 2006, teTeX is no longer actively maintained and its former maintainer Thomas Esser recommended TeX Live as the replacement.^[1] During installation of TexLive it's possible to choose scheme that would include teTeX packages.

The teTeX package is available as a package for system architectures:^[2]

Linux (x86, SPARC, PowerPC, Alpha)
macOS (x86, PowerPC)
Solaris (x86, SPARC)

Other supported operating systems include:

OpenBSD and FreeBSD (on x86 architectures)
IBM AIX on (RS/6000)
HP-UX (on HPPA)
Microsoft Windows (on 32-bit systems)
BeOS (for Intel x86)

History

Thomas Esser maintained teTeX from 1994 until May, 2006.^[3] According to Esser, the time taken to package each successive release took longer than the previous.^[4] It has been superseded by TeX Live, a “comprehensive TeX system for most types of Unix, including Linux and Mac OS X, and also Windows”.^[5] The goals of the teTeX project were to be easy, use free software, be well-documented, avoiding bugs along the way.