haha.... debian vs rpm again... everywhere.. On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:30:07 +0100, Siegfried Gonzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > doktora v wrote: > > >I'm using SUSE with success on intel laptop and AMD desktop. You get > >the best of both worlds: rpm and source. I can easily get the rpm > >packages i need, and compile on my own the things that i can spend > >time on (such as R 2.0.1 -- compiles out of the box on suse). > > > >BTW, I'm looking to switch to Mac platform. Anyone had any experience > >with that? I'm expecting on a power G4 laptop later this week.... hope > >R behaves... > > > > Hello: > > There is one issue about SuSE Linux: The "Professional version" and the > "Standard distribution". The professional version cost a tad more. > > The advantage of the professional version: you get always the header > files too in some cases. I once had SuSE Linux 8 on my old Celeron > laptop. At that time I tried to install "Numerics" on Python. But with > no avail because the "Standard SuSE distribution" lacks some additional > header files and you get always the bare minimum only. > > That said: the normal SuSE distribution will always let you aft-install > all the things you need. > > Regards, > S. Gonzi > PS: I hope I am not saying somthing outragiuous wrong now: but there > exists a free Fortran 95 compiler from INTEL for Linux. As far as I know > it is the one and only free Fortran 95 compiler out there (okay gnu g95 > is on its way). However, it is hard to get INTEL Fortran 95 running on > Debian Linux a colleague told me. I for myslef can only say that I had > had no problems in installing Fortran 95 from INTEL on SuSE. > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >
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