Great Himanshu,

Its a great idea. People at our institute have tried octave and they were asking
me earlier about where to look for some help. Now I can show them a way. Wish
your all the best. I have posted my comment at Google. Let us all know when the
voting begins.

BTW, do you know about a good GNU statistic package with X-window front end. I
have tried compiling 'STATISTIX' for linux but there had been a lot of problems.
I have finally got the R-package on my system, but it is way too heavy. I need
something simple yet good enough for carrying out very basic statistics for my
research needs. Any ideas. Anyone please?

Bye
-Tarun
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Himanshu Singh Chauhan" <hs.chauhan@...>
> To: "Suncity Jodhpur LUG" <SunCityJodhpurLUG@...>
> Subject: [SunnyLUG] [OT - ish] Supporting GNU Octave -- Free Numerical
Computing Package
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:00:45 +0530
>
>
> 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.
>
> --
> +----------------------------------------+
> | Himanshu Chauhan |
> | MCA (Final Year) |
> | I.G. National Open University |
> | Jaipur (India) |
> | |
> | http://members.lycos.co.uk/hschauhan |
> | Email: hs.chauhan@... |
> +----------------------------------------+
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
>

>



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