Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?

[Victor Munoz]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:55:57AM +0100, Gerald Ebberink wrote:
> 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.
> 

And if you're really worried about latest versions, or need specific
features of latest Octave versions, then probably you should try Debian sid.
I'm using the stable sarge version, and use Octave a lot, without problem.
But it has octave version 2.0.17. Sid has 2.1.71.

Regards,

                                                Victor
                                                



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