Re: TR: [sciclub] Scilab news

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:58:39AM -0300, Agustin Barto wrote:
> The funny thing is that an older version of cygwin works just fine, so
> I'm not really sure if it's Win32API fault.
> 
> Most of the users never heard of Linux before, but I really don't care.
> They SHOULD know Linux. It's my choice what they'll use on the labs, but
> I can't force them to use linux on their homes. That's what concerns me
> the most. I can't provide the users with an implementation of Octave
> that will work fine only on some versions of Windows (Don't care who's
> fault is it).

Have you considered giving them Quantian bootable cdroms?  

Based on Knoppix, it is directely bootable, contains octave, octave-forge,
XEmacs with Octave mode right out of the box, LaTeX support incl. frontends
like kile and texmacs plus a few hundred other applications.  

Requires zero admin -- just boot it straight into KDE and start working. Can
save persistent state to hd, floppy, usbdrive, ... but otherwise does not
touch the hard disk of the pc.

See http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html

Dirk

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