Fabrizio,
> (1) Unfortunately the on line mailing list which
> can be easily reached from the maxima home page
> is still stuck on the 1st of October:
> http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2006/date.html
>
> It would have been enough the change the link
> to the on line forum.
> Could some one please fix at least the link?
I don't have access to that web page, unfortunately.
Maybe someone else has some idea here.
> (2)
> The situation on the "Ubuntu front"
> is equally bad:
> in the Ubuntu repository
> maxima is outdated and xmaxima is totaly broken.
> I have reported this as a bug in
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs
> but so far it hasn't helped.
I agree that an up-to-date version for Ubuntu is a good idea.
Probably you should try to direct the bug report to the
person who created the existing, broken version.
The general bug tracker for Ubuntu seems to have a very
large number of bugs, so Maxima might be lost in the crowd.
Sorry I can't be more helpful,
Robert