On 9/22/05, Jean-Rene Cormier <jrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> 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. MuPAD can also be a good choice: http://www.mupad.de/download.html Paul
