The TeX Collection contains four TeX products on a single DVD.
MiKTeX is a TeX distribution primarily for Microsoft Windows, but also supporting macOS and GNU/Linux (the macOS and GNU/Linux ports of MiKTeX are not shipped as part of the DVD). It provides an easy installation even for less experienced users. MiKTeX can install new packages on the fly while TeX runs, a feature which nothing else has. TeXStudio (64bit) is included as the editor (optional).
TeX Live is a TeX system for GNU/Linux, macOS, other Unix platforms, and Windows. No editor is included.
The TeX Live system is located in directory texlive. Please change to this directory and run the script install-tl in this directory to start Unix installation or the batch script texlive/install-tl-windows.bat for Windows.
Further information regarding TeX Live is available in texlive/readme-html.dir/readme.en.html. For translations to other languages refer to texlive/index.html.
See The TeX Live Guide for the list of platforms for which executables are included.
MacTeX is a complete TeX distribution for MacOSX containing all of TeX Live, but with a native Mac installer and other Mac-specific packages included, notably the TeXShop editor. It is in the mactex directory on the DVD.
CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network, is a worldwide set of Internet servers making TeX software available. The DVD contains a snapshot of the German CTAN node dante.ctan.org from April 2021. The snapshot is located in DVD's directory ctan. You may find further information in ctan/README.HTML.
This DVD was made possible by the help of several volunteers:
The support from the following companies and organizations was also essential for the creation of this DVD.
The TeX Collection DVD is distributed by TUG in the United States, and DANTE in Germany. The DVD is also distributed by many other TeX user groups to their respective members.
We encourage donations for MiKTeX development. Please refer to the MiKTeX homepage for details.
We welcome donations to other TeX development projects via TUG's donation page.
Finally and most importantly, we encourage you to join your local TeX user group! Please see the list of worldwide TeX user groups.