From help-request at octave dot org Mon May 23 10:55:00 2005
Subject: Re: Which version on which OS is fastest and stable?
From: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
To: Michael Creel <michael dot creel at uab dot es>
cc: help at octave dot org, Reiner.Suikat@dlr.de
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:53:59 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Michael Creel wrote:

> Hello,
> Octave on Linux is both fast and stable. If you would like to try it out
> before installing, I recommend the Knoppix live CD. If you boot using the CD
> and configure networking, you can then install Octave 2.1.x using the
> commands
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install octave
>
> If you like what you see, you can easily install to hard disk in about 20
> minutes. It's one of the fastest and easiest ways to install Debian Linux.
> Michael

Quantian is a bit simpler I believe (I've never used it, but it is 
supposed to be a Knoppix variant with scientific tools like octave already 
installed): http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html

Bill

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invite me."  -- Dave Barry



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