MathCad replacement?
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Sep 22 18:25:36 UTC 2005
Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:39 -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
>
>>>>>>>"map" == Michael A Peters <mpeters at mac.com> writes:
>>
>> map> On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 22:00 -0300, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
>> >> Hi, we have MathCad on our University laptops and I was wondering if
>> >> there's something opensource like it for Linux.
>> map>
>> map> From the few times I've used MathCad - I'd have to say no. Not open
>> map> source anyway.
>>
>>Would Maxima meet your needs? (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/)
>
>
> Yeah looks like it could do what I need, I'll have to install it and
> give it a try, thanks!
>
Warning.
I just tried xmaxima from FC4 extras and it crashed my xserver. This is
a bug in xmaxima and is submitted on
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168451
This cost me some time in lost work.
I have since removed it.
--
Robin Laing
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