Re: Best VirtualBox Linux Version for octave

[Andy Buckle]

On 7 August 2011 15:13, Richard Crozier <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm interested in trying out running octave using VirtualBox on my Windows
> PC (Win 7 Pro 64 Bit). Can anyone tell me which of the default Linux types
> available with VirtualBox would be best for running, and possibly building
> octave? My options are:
>
> Linux 2.2
> Linux 2.4
> Linux 2.4 (64 bit)
> Linux 2.6
> Linux 2.6 (64 bit)
> Arch Linux
> Arch Linux (64 bit)
> Debian
> Debian (64 bit)
> openSUSE
> openSUSE (64 bit)
> Fedora
> Fedora (64 bit)
> Gentoo
> Gentoo (64 bit)
> Mandriva
> Mandriva (64 bit)
> Red Hat
> Red Hat (64 bit)
> Turbolinux
> Turbolinux (64 bit)
> Ubuntu
> Ubuntu (64 bit)
> Xandros
> Xandros (64 bit)
> Oracle
> Oracle (64 bit)
>
> Thanks

Don't think it matters. I don't know much about virtualbox. Octave
should be easily compiled on all of those distros, though. There is no
problem with 64 bit OSes. There are certainly active openSuSE and
debian users on the octave mailing lists who can help, probably some
users of all of those distros.

Andy



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