RE: TR: [sciclub] Scilab news

[THOMAS Paul Richard]

Dirk,

Thank you for that remark; I was intrigued enough to download Quantian (I
also would like to push students over the threshold of using Linux/Unix at
home).  It works a treat, apart from  the rather nasty noise made by the CD
drive!  Octave-2.1.50/GNUplot/Nedit/tclwish are all there and run a lot
faster than under Cygwin.  A couple of tiny gripes;

(i) DLD's are enabled from the interpreter but mkoctfile is not in the
package - is it not runable from the CD for some reason?
(ii) It would have been nice to have bltwish (1.4Mbyte under Windows) there
as well as tcl/tk.

However, that said that, this really is exactly what I needed - thank you.

Paul Thomas

PS In spite of it working well, my version produced a mess of error messages
on booting, all involving opsopen.  Do you want to see the syslog?
PPS I couldn't help but feel that the persistent state should not be the
default.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:address@hidden
Envoyé : samedi 29 novembre 2003 15:25
À : Agustin Barto
Cc : Christoph Dalitz; address@hidden
Objet : Re: TR: [sciclub] Scilab news


On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:58:39AM -0300, Agustin Barto wrote:
> The funny thing is that an older version of cygwin works just fine, so
> I'm not really sure if it's Win32API fault.
> 
> Most of the users never heard of Linux before, but I really don't care.
> They SHOULD know Linux. It's my choice what they'll use on the labs, but
> I can't force them to use linux on their homes. That's what concerns me
> the most. I can't provide the users with an implementation of Octave
> that will work fine only on some versions of Windows (Don't care who's
> fault is it).

Have you considered giving them Quantian bootable cdroms?  

Based on Knoppix, it is directely bootable, contains octave, octave-forge,
XEmacs with Octave mode right out of the box, LaTeX support incl. frontends
like kile and texmacs plus a few hundred other applications.  

Requires zero admin -- just boot it straight into KDE and start working. Can
save persistent state to hd, floppy, usbdrive, ... but otherwise does not
touch the hard disk of the pc.

See http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html

Dirk

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