From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Dec 13 16:21:59 2000 Subject: Re: The future of Octave From: Kevin Straight To: Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=d8d?= cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:21:49 -0800 (PST) On 11 Dec 2000, Trond Eivind [iso-8859-1] GlomsrØd wrote: > Gtk+/GNOME is not in anyway Linux-specific, and is even backed by Sun, > HP, IBM etc. There is a Gtk+ port for Windows, while I don't think > there is one for Mac. > Apparently some guy just ported GNOME to Win/32. Check out www.gnome.org. While total portability is a nice goal, as long as we came up with something that runs on Linux, Win/32, Sun, and BSD (the platforms GNOME runs on), we have just served 90% of our user base. How do I know this? Look at my httpd logs for a typical week (keeping in mind that I run an octave-specific site that few other people come to). The four OS above make up almost exactly 90% of what I think is a legitimate sample: Listing operating systems, sorted by the number of requests. no.: reqs: OS ---: ----: -- 1: 3164: Unix : 2609: Linux : 279: SunOS : 192: Other Unix : 35: HP-UX : 22: BSD : 14: OSF1 : 13: IRIX 2: 1493: Windows : 566: Windows NT : 373: Windows 98 : 222: Windows 2000 : 165: Windows 95 : 159: Unknown Windows : 8: Windows Me 3: 129: OS unknown 4: 125: Macintosh : 72: Macintosh 68k : 53: Macintosh PowerPC ps: I'm just making a point, not trying to talk you into jumping on the gnome band wagon. ========================== Kevin Straight University of Idaho www.uidaho.edu/~stra9456 ========================== ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------