Re: a meta name for axiom, open.axiom, fricas. was: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [#55] Axiom doesn't run on Windows

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

root wrote:
> > Dirk Eddelbuettel called "Quantian"
>
> I worked with him on that. Haven't heard from him in a while.
> Have to msg him. Prior to Quantian I was distributing "Rosetta"
> CDs which had about 100 CAS-ish systems on them. Along came 
> Knoppix. I started the Doyen effort but Dirk got the Knoppix
> thing up and running very quickly. 
>
> Quantian is a nice piece of work.
>
> Tim

Yeah ... I'm on their mailing list. Dirk hasn't done much with it in the 
past couple of years, actually. The big deal was clustering via 
OpenMosix, and I think OpenMosix didn't survive the transition from the 
2.4 to 2.6 kernel, or something like that. Keeping up with the R 
libraries on Debian keeps him pretty busy, I think, plus I also think he 
has a full-time job as a quant somewhere too.

A year or so ago I got a CD from ACM SIGSAM with a bunch of CAS on it, 
including, of course, Axiom. I don't remember what else was on there, 
but I don't think there were any I hadn't heard of from either Debian or 
Gentoo.

BTW ... it's possible I'll have my One Laptop Per Child machine before 
the end of the year. The shipments have started, and I ordered early 
enough that I might get it between Christmas and New Years, or at worst, 
in the first week or two of January. So I am looking for a lightweight 
CAS. I've got Maxima (SBCL runtime) working on the virtual machine, so 
if there's room, that's probably what I'll go with. For what I do -- 
queuing theory mostly -- it has everything I need (matrices, Laplace 
transforms and basic algebra and calculus).