Re: Re: Running Mathematica under Linux Red Hat
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- Subject: [mg21130] Re: [mg20952] Re: Running Mathematica under Linux Red Hat
- From: Harald Giese <giese at dkrz.de>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 01:21:29 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Institut fuer Meereskunde, Universitaet Hamburg
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Rob Smith wrote: > > 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, nobody thinks Windows 95/98 is a serious OS - not even MS: otherwise they would not sell NT4. I am runnig currently NT4 on my machines - Mathematica does not crash nor have I reboot NT (except for driver updates). But I think I will switch to Linux next year, because I miss real (not desktop-links) file- and directory-links and want to get rid of that opaque "registry" stuff. /Harald --- This message was entirely written using recycled electrons --- Harald Giese Email: giese at dkrz.de Phone: +49 (0)40 42838 5796; Fax: +49 (0)40 5605724 Institut fuer Meereskunde der Universitaet Hamburg (Institute of Oceanography of the University of Hamburg) Troplowitzstrasse 7, D-22529 Hamburg