We supply binary builds in the native package format for various
flavours of Linux and BSD, and in InstallShield form for Windows
-folks. Everybody else gets a .tar.gz which can be installed where you
-want.
+folks. Binary builds for other platforms are available as a .tar.gz
+which can be installed wherever you want. The source distribution is
+also available from the same place.
Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
README file to find all of the documentation about this release.
-The source distribution is freely available via the World-Wide Web,
-under a BSD-style license. See below for download details. Pre-built
-packages for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Win32 are also available.
-
More details about what's new
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development. The distribution includes space and time profiling
facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
-language interfaces (C, whatever).
+language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a
+BSD-style open source license.
A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,