On 10 Mar 1997, Norris Preyer wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Zachary) writes:
Also, has anyone experience with Mathematica 3.0 on Debian? I called and
chatted to a nice lady at Wolfram who told me that as long as a.out and
ELF binaries are supported, Mathematica plays nice with Linux. However,
you never know if there are other 'gotchas' lurking underneath the surface.
John
I don't know what the bit about a.out is about, for file reports:
Mathematica: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 386, version 1, stripped
Version 3.0 is *very* nice, with the entire 1400 page book available
via on-line help, along with classy typography. It also takes 116Mb
for a full install, as well as Motif (I don't know if lesstif would
work). It seems very fast and stable---Wolfram Research took the time
to do this right.
I have Mathematica 3.0 installed, and it didn't require motif. The 3.0
version is very nice My alternative was mathematica for win95, and
the win95 version was very slow compared to the linux version.
I've not yet experimented with notebook--html pages and the like, but
there's lots of fun stuff to explore. Is there a Linux (or Debian)
Mathematica group??
--Norris
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