Re: LiveCD for G5 powerpc with Octave

[Gurhan Ozen]

On 6/15/06, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, this may be slightly offtopic, but I have a bit of a problem. Soon
> I will be spending a few weeks in GIMMC, a mathematical modelling camp
> (http://www.pims.math.ca/industrial/2006/06gimmc/), and I'm a little
> uncomfortable by the idea of having to use non-free software in order
> to get work done during GIMMC (I haven't touched non-free software in
> years; I usually carry around with me a Knoppix CD just for this
> purpose). I'm told they will have G5 Powermacs. Does anyone know of an
> easy way to obtain or create a GNU/Linux live cd with Octave on it for
> the powerpc64 architecture?
>
> Thanks,
> - Jordi G. H.

 If noone has it, you might have to create your own.. You can use
Kadischi to create a fedora based live CD.. See the instructions here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi .
If you don't have access to a ppc machine then yeah, i don't know what
to say. Wish you sent this message earlier.

Hope this helps.
gurhan
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