newbie questions

[Michel Jullian]

Salutations all,

I am new to this list and to Octave, so forgive me if the topics have been
addressed before.

Congratulations to John Eaton et al. for what looks like an excellent piece of
software, free moreover, which seems to be to scientific software what Linux
is to OSes.

Before going through the nightmarish installation procedure described in:

ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/BINARIES/gnu-win32/README.gnu-win32-install

i would just like to ask a few hopeful questions :

1) Is there any chance that an automatic installer for Win* is going to be
released in a few days (one can dream, can't one ? :)
2) Is there really *no* version of Octave for MacOS, my preferred platform ?
3) I never installed Linux but this might be the occasion to do it. Has
anybody compiled Octave for some flavor of Linux running on Power Macs ? Or is
there a simple procedure (simple for a non-unixian I mean) to compile it ?

-- 
Greetings,
Michel
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