Salut Olivier,

teTeX benefits from an excellent integration with debian-like distros i.e. you can update with the last version, install or not some exotic packages like prosper for LaTeX (.deb package), tetex-frog for french support. etc. But since TeXlive is based on teTeX, I believe that more packages are included (some PSTricks extensions pst-*** or prosper). Of course, you have to take these considerations into account only if you will use LaTeX.

I'm learning ConTeXt for a week after 3-4 of LaTeX practice and I have installed texlive2005 after some unexpected experiments with teTeX. Now, my fonts-related problem is solved so I will maybe retry ConTeXt with teTeX... In *my* opinion, teTeX is lightest because when you need a package, apt works well and if there is no deb package, you can easilly install it manually (a0poster, HAProsper, Thèse Loria...)
I need a complete distrib of TeX with LaTeX support because I need it for publication purposes and I don't want to port all my doc to ConTeXt yet... If you need ConTeXt without LaTeX, the better solution is effectively to follow Hans's advice.

With teTeX and TeXlive, fonts-related problem seem not (*are* not, to me,) trivial but the mailing list is a good start point...

Another point, if you need a multi-OS distrib of (La)TeX => texlive is the solution since teTeX is only for linux.

For internals, I don't know well diff between teTeX and TeXlive.

Cordialement,

If you need more advices or precisions (in french) you can contact me directly

VnPenguin a écrit : 
On 11/29/05, olivier Turlier <o.turlier@free.fr> wrote:
  
Hi everybody,
I'm going to install context on a linux box (ubuntu 5.10).

1) I wish to hear texnicians (rather than aficionados) words on wich tex
distro fit best for mainly context use, on fonts optimisation, for
exemple, etc.
    

teTeX is a good choice. Of course there is also TeXlive :-)

  
2) is informations on contextgarden wiki are still uptodate for tetex
install ?
    

Yes,

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