[luau] Mandrake rules again

[Eric Hattemer]

I'm doubtful that anyone cares, but it seems scilab can't do indefinite
integrals, so I would have been better off using the TI 89 anyway.

-Eric Hattemer

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 23:14, Eric Hattemer wrote:
> So I'm sitting here doing math homework and I want to make sure that
> integral(cos(nx)) is equal to sin(nx)/n, as I believe it to be.  Now I
> could use my incredibly expensive calculator (and probably should), but
> I'm sitting in front of a computer, so I decide to look for a program
> like matlab that'd do the job.  So I run a search and run into some
> university page that says what they have installed on their unix
> system.  Matlab, Mathematica, and Scilab, which it lists as open
> source.  I figured it might be something that I'd have to find,
> download, compile, find I have missing packages, mess around for a few
> hours, then give up.  But just in case, I go to my terminal and type
> "urpmi scilab<tab>" and sure enough, it gives me the choice to download
> scilab-2.6xx.  I was really amazed at how easy that was.  Seriously, if
> all you've ever used is redhat, give mandrake a try.  Its really neat. 
> Its contrib sources make it really easy to get unsupported 3rd party
> programs, and they encourage people to compile their favorite packages
> and put them in there.  Redhat doesn't usually do anything like that. 
> Then if you want, you can check out plf.zarb.org, which has all the
> latest in not quite legal linux programs available for mandrake too. 
> Its not all subversive evil stuff.  There's things like dvd players, mp3
> encoders, etc. in there.  Try the German mirror.  Its really fast for me
> (100KByte/s) here in LA.  
> 
> -Eric Hattemer 
> 
> 
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