Dear Fellow Members,

If you are from scientific background, you might have heard the name of
MATLAB(R) from
Mathworks, Inc. Its a very good software for all types of computation,
system designs etc.

There is another software called GNU Octave, which is free and is
compatible with MATLAB.
I used MATLAB for the first time in December 2005. But then its closed
source and isn't freely
available. I started searching for its alternative in linux world. And I
landed upon GNU Octave
homepage. I compiled and installed Octave. I was trilled by its
capabilities.

Though GNU Octave is still not as powerful as MATLAB but has all the
potentials for the same.
With an intention of helping it improve, I created a google group
"dsp-octave" for it. I also posted
a joining request at comp.dsp newsgroup. Members there, were in favor of
discussing Octave only
when it has a newsgroup. To get support of knowlegeable people there, I
sent an RFD (Request
For Discussion) to the "Big-8 Group". Fortunately, they sanctioned the
RFD and its there at
news.groups.

A discussion for the same is going on new.groups.
The Title is "RFD: comp.soft-sys.octave". The link to the group is
http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/browse_frm/thread/f6bbca9b59259522/1d\
9bd40b366f5ea0?tvc=1#1d9bd40b366f5ea0

GNU Octave is worth getting an attention. It comes free with our beloved
Linux.

Dear members, I would request you to join the discussion and say some
favorable words as to why
you liked the idea for separate group and why the new newsgroup should
be created.
This will strengthen the proposal.

I seek you help in supporting a good free software.

Warm Regards,

--Himanshu

PS.: After the discussion, a voting round will be there. This round is
most crucial. The chances that the
group will be created, depends on how much favorable votes the
voting round get. I will inform
you when the voting starts. Voting *__IS__* very essential part
of creation.

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| Himanshu Chauhan |
| MCA (Final Year) |
| I.G. National Open University |
| Jaipur (India) |
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| http://members.lycos.co.uk/hschauhan |
| Email: hs.chauhan@... |
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