On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 05:54:56PM +0000, belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I want to replace the matlab ( commercial on windows) with an > appropriate one on debian, > which is the nearest to matalab ( scilab, octave ....) . nearest in octave is the closest matlab clone maxima is the closest maple clone texmacs is the best GUI pretty-printer for each; it can host an octave or maxima session and produce gorgeous output