On Jan 27, 2008 1:40 AM, Reinhard Oldenburg <oldenburg at ph-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> system. However, the EEEPC has no rpm and thus it is difficult to
> install Maxima on it.
EeePC may not come with RPM, but as I recall, it has some minimalist
version of Xandros, a Debian-based distro, on it. Why couldn't one
install Maxima with a .deb (and surely there are plenty of .deb
packages out there)?
Or, better yet, students who want to extend the capabilities of EeePC
may find that replacing the OS with Debian (here's one forum thread:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=94965) serves them much
better in the long run---after installing Debian, not only can they
install maxima with simple "apt-get install maxima", but other
numerical packages, such as GNU Octave, and more general tools like
Python.
Regards,
Andrzej
P.S. I am not an EeePC owner. I read a lot about it and would like to
have one, but I am saving for a new notebook, so I can't. :(