Another software package available under linux...
Posted Oct 2, 2002 20:41 UTC (Wed) by
newren (guest, #5160)
In reply to:
No Email, some other suggestions by torsten
Parent article:
The Case for Linux in Universities
Someone else already responded about some of the software you mentioned being available for linux. I didn't know about that, but I do know about another package you mentioned. You seemed to imply (I could be wrong, but that's how it came across to me) that a transfer from Windows to Linux would require a transfer from matlab to octave and gnuplot. However, if you have matlab for windows then there should be no problem in getting matlab for unix or linux. In fact, I've hardly used matlab under Windows but have used it a great deal under *nix. In fact, it was quite a while after I started using matlab before I knew it was available for windows (and maybe I didn't know about it because it really wasn't available--I don't know).
Of course, it is good to point out octave + gnuplot, as the Mathworks (creators of matlab) have developed a monopoly and are becoming highly Microsoft-ish.
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