Re: Re: Running Mathematica under Linux Red Hat
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- Subject: [mg21000] Re: [mg20952] Re: Running Mathematica under Linux Red Hat
- From: Rob Smith <rob at groucho.med.jhmi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:41:13 -0500 (EST)
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I too am now running under Red Hat 6.0 and, wow, what a huge difference. I do alot of graphics and manipulations with fairly large lists. Under Windoze I would routinely reboot every hour or so also--I spent almost as much time saving and rebooting (and recalculating lost work) as I did doing my work in the first place! I'm now running on a 450 MHz P-III with 256 MB RAM and haven't crashed Mathematica a single time. And if anybody wants more incentive to switch to Linux check this out: I boot Win95 and Red Hat 6.0 off the same machine and 1) my CPU runs 8 degrees Celsius cooler under Linux and 2) my 56K modem connection is 10 times faster under Linux. No, I am not kidding. Rob Smith Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD 21205