Re: Mathematica on Linux
Hi,
I used Mathematica for lInux in 1996 during my Honours program, and then later
in my PhD.
The Student Version is feature complete - but it adds nasty little watermarks to
any printed pages and any wepages you make with it.
The most annoying thing I found was that after I had a disk failure I had to get
a new license key, even though the drive in question had nothing to do with
Mathematica or my data. I guess it's what Windoze users have to look forward to.
You'll want to have a really big monitor to use it most effectively 19"+ at
least, 'cos otherwise the fonts look butt ugly. This was a while ago, so
perhaps using the TTF from Windoze via a local font server would work, I was
using it prior to that being an effective option. And perhaps that's not a
problem anymore.
I also found that whilst the Windoze release pretty much used the whole box, I
could do other things while my programs were running when I used the Linux port
- I was doing ecological sims using big CA designs with multidimensional
lattices, pumping the states through SPSS on a sparc on the LAN, and then
visualizing the results of that back in Mathematica, so I was pushing the poor
thing pretty hard.
Just my experience,
John P Foster
M G wrote:
> Have any of you used mathematica for linux? i use the
> windows version and find it very helpful... but i
> don't want to pay all that money for a linux version
> if i should just continue using it in windows..
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
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