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Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?
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Gerald Ebberink |
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Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support? |
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Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:55:57 +0100 |
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I personally use octave on SuSe, but the somenone you talked to is right you
would have to compile it yourself. Fedora is nice but personally I would go
for Debian (if you have the choice), this is just because there are more
scientific packages available for Debian.
On Friday 04 November 2005 09:43, andreas naessl wrote:
> i want to change from winXP to linux, soon (hardware: intel P4 standard
> pc). not beeing an expert, i'm not shure which Linux-distribution is the
> optimum regarding octave, that means: latest version, octave forge,
> availability of rpm's (eg 2.9.3-devel.-version) etc. i simply wan't to
> minmize all that compilation / make - problems, cause i'm totally
> unexperienced with that. someone said, SUSE would be a bit weak regarding
> octave support. would be Fedora or Debian be a better choice ?
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Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?, Javier Arantegui, 2005/11/04