From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 14:35:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F4015747 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:35:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA22700; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:35:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:35:13 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: Craig Johnston Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: math packages. mathematica, maple, matlab, or? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Craig Johnston wrote: > What's the status of various math packages under FreeBSD? I am > looking to get a general purpose math package. Free would be fine if > the functionality is close to what is commercially available, but I am > expecting to have to buy Maple or Mathematica or Matlab. As far as I know the Linux version of Mathematica used to work fine under Linux compatibility. I don't know that anyone's tried the other two, but I'm looking at buying Maple since I found a good academic deal for it. If you're interested in a free math package, go check in on MuPAD - it's free (or rather there is a free version - you appear to pay for support). http://www.mupad.de/ If anyone knows if Maple runs (the Linux version) I'd like to know before I shell out the bucks for it. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message