"Richard Fateman" <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> I am thinking of converting an old intel laptop to run some version of
> unix, since the laptop is otherwise kind of redundant. Students here
> seem to prefer ubuntu. Is this a good idea if I want to run lisps and
> maxima? Or is something else better?
> It would be nice to have a simple installation, and an otherwise
> functioning unix networking system.. Thanks for suggestions.
I am running Debian. GCL, Clisp and maxima are available and run just
fine. Debian today has a graphical installer and installations are
fairly painful.
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