help-octave
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

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


From: Jon H. Davis
Subject: Re: which Linux distribution offers the best octave-support?
Date: 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.
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.
> 
> Octave's home on the web:  http://www.octave.org
> How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
> Subscription information:  http://www.octave.org/archive.html
> -------------------------------------------------------------



-------------------------------------------------------------
Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Octave's home on the web:  http://www.octave.org
How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
Subscription information:  http://www.octave.org/archive.html
-------------------------------------------------------------



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]