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Re: Linux and Mathematica V7

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• Subject: [mg94204] Re: [mg94194] Linux and Mathematica V7
• From: "Curtis F. Osterhoudt" <cfo at lanl.gov>
• Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 05:42:34 -0500 (EST)
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• Reply-to: cfo at lanl.gov

Hi, John,

   I don't know about the keypad issue, but the legends are fixed now. I
mainly use Debian distributions; unless Ubuntu has made some radical
changes recently, you should have no problem with the latest
Mathematica release.

           Cheers,
                   C.O.


> I'll soon be getting the Linux version of Mathematica V7.  I don't
> know much about the various Linux distributions, but I'm wondering if
> there are there any conflicts with Ubuntu v 8.10 and Mathematica V7.
> Is there a "best" distribution for Mathematica?  I mainly crunch
> numbers thousands of digits long and do Jones matrix analyses which
> have many (~100K) symbolic terms.  I boggles my mind how well
> Mathematica works these tasks.
>
> In the Linux version of Mathematica (V 5.2) I've used , the legends on
> framed plots were illegible at best, and the and the key pad was non-
> functional.  Are these bugs gone in V7?
>
> Thanks to all,
>
> John Feth
>
>

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  • Linux and Mathematica V7
    • From: john.feth@honeywell.com