At Sat, 1 Aug 2009 23:01:37 +0100 (BST),
Leo Butler wrote:
>
> I run debian lenny (stable) on an asus eee904hd. The debian stable
> maxima package is very out-of-date (q: why is this the case?).
>
> I installed clisp and cmucl from the repository and built maxima from
> the latest release on sourceforge. (I've also built gcl 2.6.8pre from
> source, but this is a bit more difficult.)
I recommend Debian too.
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC
I think Stable is intended to be used on servers.
Testing is OK for desktops and laptops.
(Anyway, it is not hard to build a CL
implementation and Maxima.)
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Yours sincerely,
Alexey Beshenov <al at cadadr.org>