On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 12:25 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > Jean-Rene Cormier wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:39 -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > > > >>>>>>>"map" == Michael A Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> 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. Thanks for the heads up, I'll make sure to give it a try when I don't have anything running. -- Jean-Rene Cormier <jrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
