Re: Choosing between Mathematica for Windows and Linux
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- Subject: [mg36740] Re: Choosing between Mathematica for Windows and Linux
- From: Hendrik van Hees <hees at physik.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 04:32:17 -0400 (EDT)
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Sidney Cadot wrote: > Hi group, > > One of these days the company I work for will buy one Mathematica 4.2 > license. Now we will have to choose between either the Linux or the > Windows versions of the product. If in doubt take the Linux version, because Linux is the more stable sytem. The Redmond chaos code is IMHO no system at all (SCNR). I have only one problem with my Mathematica 4.0 for students, which is that the Export function does not work for gif and other graphics formats. I have posted a question about this into this group but nobody has answered, so I guess there is no fix for that, but on the other hand 4.2 is much newer and should work. > My main concern (and probably the grounds on which we will base our > decision) is the quality of the front-end. The Windows frontend works > flawlessly; however, in test-driving earlier versions of Mathematica (3.0 > and 4.0) on Linux, I found that the front-end was working a lot less > satisfactorily. I didn't spend much time to hunt down the source of the > problem, but it is probable that some X key-mapping was wrong making, for > example, keyboard shortcuts for 'Copy' and 'Paste' malfunctioning. On the > whole, I'd say the Linux front-end simply felt less robust than does the > Windows frontend. I have no problem concerning the frontend. One has only to adjust the font settings (if you need it, I can send you a pdf file explaining how). -- Hendrik van Hees Fakultät für Physik Phone: +49 521/106-6221 Universität Bielefeld Fax: +49 521/106-2961 Universitätsstraße http://theory.gsi.de/~vanhees/ D-33615 Bielefeld