I have used Mathematica on Fedora for a number of years. I have found that if I contact Mathematica and explain that I have updated my OS and need a new password for the new configuration, that I get what I need with no problem. -----Original Message----- From: David Liguori [mailto:liguorid@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 9:23 AM To: D. Hugh Redelmeier; Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: Maple on Fedora D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: Hiisi <very-cool@xxxxxxxxxx> > > | Maple is not open source (free). It was main argument for me to > | choose another symbolic arithmetic program - maxima ( > | maxima.sourceforge.net ). It's brilliant. > > My daughter bought Mathmatica for a project perhaps five years ago. > She ran it on RHL9 or something like it. Anyway, she would have to > relicence it to move it to a newer distro release or machine so she > still runs it on the same ancient machine. > > If she had bought it for Windows XP, it would have had a much longer > lifetime. > > Lesson: proprietary licensing models work even worse on open platforms > because open platform have a tradition of binary obsolescence. > > Perhaps Maplesoft has a better upgrade model than Wolfram. > > The only symbolic algebra package I ever bought was muMATH for the > z80: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuMATH > I never got it to work due to its kind of copy protection. There's a > theme here. > > PARI/GP worked well for my modest needs but it would not work for > yours. > > This has been my experience as well. Maple and Matlab both ostensibly can be installed on Linux but in practice it's difficult or impossible. I tried years ago, gave up and run them both in Windows. Open source substitutes sometimes do what I need and sometimes not. If I have time I play with them. In principle I like Linux and open source, but am by no means ideological about it. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
