On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, C Y wrote: I'm interested in using a symbolic integrator, and am already using mupad, www.sciface.com. How does the stuff in mupad work compared to Maxima? I'm also aware that Wolfram has a Mathematica for Linux, but am not in the mood to spend the money for it. > Sorry if this is the wrong list for this, but I have come to beg the Linux > Mandrake community to create and bundle with the next version of Linux > Mandrake rpms for a mathematical program called Maxima. This program has > two major requirements - gcl and the maxima program itself - which are not > available except as an exceptionally old binary and source, and also a > graphical front end to some of the functionality called Symaxx. The front > end is at http://rz-home.de/~cnentwig/symaxx.html, and Maxima and gcl are at > http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/wfs/maxima.html. The reason I feel this > software is worth including is that it represents the only GPL software > which can handle major symbolic calculations. Octave is excellent for > numerical stuff, but when it comes to Mathematica style symbolic > calculations Maxima seems to be THE free program right now. I have seen a > number of people inquiring about rpms for this software, because the compile > is a bit difficult, but apparently there are none. I believe it would be a > good complement to Octave in the Mandrake distribution. I am not > technically qualified to do this myself :-( so I thought I would put it up > to the mandrake people and see if anyone thought it was worthwhile to get it > to compile under Mandrake and make an RPM. Has anyone considered this? > Again, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask. > > Best, > C Y > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > -- Regards, Ellick Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sep 3
