Free alternatives to Matlab 1

[GregLocock]

I recently have been working on a Matlab project at work, but don't have Matlab on my home computer.

In the past I have used Scilab for this sort of thing, but it is equivalent to, rather than a clone of, Matlab.

In the past Octave has been recommended as an open source clone of Matlab. It has now reached release 3 and I am pleased to say that while it is not 100% compatible, you can at least develop a program on either platform, with reasonable success. The graphics have improved a lot.

I'd rather have Matlab, but I'd rather pay for Octave.

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html

Cheers

Greg Locock

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[SomptingGuy]

I downloaded and installed a pre-built 3.0.1 for my (shame) Windoze home box today. It crashed on startup. I guess my PC or its OS is a bit too old. I wonder what's being shipped with modern Linux distros?

- Steve

 

[GregLocock]

Odd- I'm running it on XP on my 2 year old laptop, it is fine.

Cheers

Greg Locock

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[drawoh]

SomptingGuy,

Fedora Core[ ]6 does not have Octave. Fedora deleted all sorts of apparently non-essential programs. I am hoping these have been restored on the later versions.

I have installed version[ ]3 from source. I have installed earlier Windows versions in binary format. The Free Software guys seem to understand that Windows normally does not include a C and a Fortran complier.

JHG

 

[SomptingGuy]

I just installed 3.0.1 on my work Windoze machine and it seems to work just fine. I may even try using it for real work for a while.

I can only find 2.x on our Linux machines at work. We do have at least one machine with Red Hat AS5 on it I think, but can't remember which one though.

- Steve