1. I'm on the Axiom mailing lists. There has been a fork of Axiom called FriCAS, which is in some sense I don't quite understand, associated with the Sage project. The fork started out life as an Axiom developer wanting to speed up the build process of Axiom, as well as making the project more responsive to defect fixes as well as new features.
Like many forks, there's a bit of acrimony between the two projects. I'm a casual user of Axiom -- it's on my list of things to learn, and I've got it running on my machines both out of Portage and from upstream source. I'm not ready to "join either camp" -- all I want is something that works. I am, however, doing some testing this weekend on FriCAS to see if I can make it work on my Athlon64 X2. If anyone is interested in FriCAS, the mailing list is at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en 2. Sage itself is an interesting project that I think belongs in sci-mathematics, whether or not it contains Axiom or FriCAS. It's mostly Python wrappers on other scientific libraries. Their home page is http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/. I've got the source tarball and plan to do a test build this weekend on the Athlon64 X2. If it works, I'll probably put an enhancement request in Bugzilla for it. The source tarball has *all* of the dependencies, I think, so I may have to do some tweaking to make it take things out of Portage insteas. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
