Re: W98 vs. Linux Platform
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- Subject: [mg19674] Re: W98 vs. Linux Platform
- From: "Robert F. Scheyder" <scheyder at math.upenn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 02:19:46 -0400
- Organization: University of Pennsylvania
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Hi,
I am crazy enough to run v.4.0 under both Linux (kernel 2.2x) and Win98. I
don't know of any quantitative benchmarks, as least that I've ever
performed, but subjectively, running on the same processor speed of 166 MHz,
I see no real difference. There is a significant difference in that Linux
has never crashed me when using Mathematica whereas with Win98 I must
restart at least once a day because of crashes...
On the flip side, whenever I play with the kernel on Linux, I must obtain a
new password from Wolfram; this is no problem.
Hope this helps.
Tschuss!
Robert
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Robert F. Scheyder
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University of Pennsylvania
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-with apologies to Pat Benatar
PR <PantaRhei at netscape.net> wrote in message news:7r4vm0$9qd at smc.vnet.net...
: Dear newsgroup readers:
: Does anybody have experience of running Mathematica 4.0 under W98 vs.
: running it under Linux? Particularly, is there a significant difference
: in benchmarks?
:
: Thanks,
:
: Marc
: sachon at leland.stanford.edu
:
: