Re: Which version on which OS is fastest and stable?

[Michael Creel]

On Monday 23 May 2005 17:53, Bill Denney wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2005, Michael Creel wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Octave on Linux is both fast and stable. If you would like to try it out
> > before installing, I recommend the Knoppix live CD. If you boot using the
> > CD and configure networking, you can then install Octave 2.1.x using the
> > commands
> > sudo apt-get update
> > sudo apt-get install octave
> >
> > If you like what you see, you can easily install to hard disk in about 20
> > minutes. It's one of the fastest and easiest ways to install Debian
> > Linux. Michael
>
> Quantian is a bit simpler I believe (I've never used it, but it is
> supposed to be a Knoppix variant with scientific tools like octave already
> installed): http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html
>
> Bill
This is true, but you will get an older version of Octave this way. The great 
advantage of the newer versions of Knoppix is that they use unionfs, so that 
the entire fs can be modified, even though the original fs is on CD.
Michael



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