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Re: Octave impression
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Claudio Belotti |
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Re: Octave impression |
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Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:31:07 +0200 |
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Hi all,
Debian community now has a science mailing list and a wiki dedicated to
science, I think this will be a good place to let scientists know the
real potentiality of Octave.
Claudio
Andrey Romanenko wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The other day I was watching the video of a talk about the use of free
> software (Debian in particular) in science and research given by Helen
> Faulkner at the latest Debconf (http://www.debconf.org/debconf5/).
>
> Many (but not all) from the audience had the opinion that Octave is
> significantly worse than
> Matlab. Some mentioned certain features that are indeed not available in
> Octave (such as Simulink), but others mentioned the lack of sparse matrix
> engine, a feature that has been implemented in Octave for some time. This
> shows that apparently there is a big gap between what Octave is now and what
> people, besides the maintainers and very active users, think it is. Looks
> like
> Octave needs some positive "PR", especially in such areas as science, R&D and
> education. It could enlarge the users base, which is important for a free
> software project and maybe even net some funding for further development.
> John's idea to have a workshop looks right in light of this. Stefan's talk is
> another good example. What other ways to "promote" Octave could be effective?
> Thanks!
>
> Andrey
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