Re: What linux distro is recommended

[Quentin Spencer]

Obed Sands wrote:

> Bought a new computer and want to  build linux and run octave.
>
> What is recommded for this? What works out-of-the-box?
>
> Used SuSE in the past and was pretty happy but 7.2 won't build Octave.

Many distributions come with Octave as part of the distribution, 
although they will generally will not have the newest version. I like 
RedHat, and I have posted some RPMS for RedHat 9, Octave version 2.1.49, 
on my website (www.ee.byu.edu/~qhs/octave). I believe there are several 
users on this list who would recommend Debian. The advantage of Debian 
is you can use apt-get to install the latest version without compiling 
anything yourself.

-Quentin



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