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Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?
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Jon H. Davis |
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Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support? |
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Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:18:01 -0500 |
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:32 -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> On Friday 04 November 2005 03:43, 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
>
> I would have suggested Debian unstable, but you require an rpm based distro,
> and Debian is not that.
You could try using alien to convert the .deb files to .rpm. It should
do the conversion, but I don't know how the debian unstable library
versions line up against Fedora/Suse. If you end up alienizing a bunch
of libraries, it might be less work to compile sources.
Jon
>
> Debian testing (etch) currently does not have octave-forge available (a few
> weeks and counting). I am just hoping that I do not have to use those
> functions any time soon.
>
> > 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 ?
> >
>
> I have no idea about SuSe (never used it), but Fedora or Mandriva ought to be
> good rpm based distros for you.
>
>
>
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- Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?, (continued)
- Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?, Søren Hauberg, 2005/11/04
- Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?, Michael Creel, 2005/11/04
- Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?, Evan Monroig, 2005/11/04
- Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?, Przemek Klosowski, 2005/11/04
- Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?, Quentin Spencer, 2005/11/04
Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?, Javier Arantegui, 2005/11/04
Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?, Madhusudan Singh, 2005/11/04
- Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?,
Jon H. Davis <=
Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?, Rafael Laboissiere, 2005/11/04
Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?, Marcus Vinicius Eiffle Duarte, 2005/11/04
Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?, andreas naessl, 2005/11/04