from its web site:
kergis ... is a TeX kernel system providing what everything is based upon: Donald E. Knuth's Digital Typography system; with some useful additions. This system includes, of course, METAFONT and TeX; but auxiliaries are also included. It includes dvips, bibtex, metapost, etex.
It doesn't include latex, pdftex, ... though
http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html
I wrote a SlackBuild for it but I didn't want to mess with my
slackware installation (and its installed tetex).
I built it on slax instead and tested it there.
