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Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave
From: |
Przemek Klosowski |
Subject: |
Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave |
Date: |
Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:06:45 -0400 (EDT) |
Strictly speaking, you don't have to switch to Linux to use
Octave---there's a Windows port. There are, in fact, many
interesting applications originating on Linux, that have
been ported to Windows: GIMP, OpenOffice, etc. etc.
Having said that, I am in the Linux party myself, so I would encourage
your exploring of Linux, especially if you are serious about the
64-bit systems. I have an Athlon64 running x86_64 flavor of
Fedora2---it runs like a champ. It certainly can be put together for
under 1k$ (currently, a low-end athlon64 motherboard/CPU can be had
for around $350---the premium for 64-bitness shouldn't be more than a
C note; c.f. my CPU 'market report' on http://dclug.tux.org/cpu.png )
Note that Octave is limited to 2GB or less data objects,
even on a 64-bit architecture.
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Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org
How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html
Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html
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- Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave, (continued)
- Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave, A S Hodel, 2004/10/07
- RE: Migrating to Linux/Octave, NZG, 2004/10/07
- Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave, Paul Thomas, 2004/10/07
- Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave, E. Joshua Rigler, 2004/10/07
- Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave, Jonathan Stickel, 2004/10/07
- Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave,
Przemek Klosowski <=
- Re: Migrating to Linux/Octave, Ada Cheng, 2004/10/07