[PLUG] Minitab dilemna...

[Erik Lane]

Look at Sage math ( http://www.sagemath.org/) for a general
mathematics package. It has R, numpy, octave, etc. etc. I'm not a
mathematician, so I don't know a huge amount about it, but I have been
checking it out as I am an engineering student and mathematica was
recommended to me. This is a *very* actively developed alternative to
just about any math package. They have a little of everything, but of
course the things that are most complete are the ones that have
interested developers. So some areas are more mature than others, I
gather.

It's very powerful right now, though. Normally you can check it out at
http://sagenb.org/

I even have an account there (it's free) and play around with stuff
sometimes. It's got fun graphing and lots and lots of math that's way
beyond me - rings and ??? But I just went to look at it to get the URL
and the whole thing, sagemath and sagenb both seem to be down right
now. First time I've ever seen that, but it would be when I want to
recommend it, of course!

I'm sure it will be back up soon, but right now it's broken.

You can get a taste of it at:
http://sagemath.blogspot.com/          (author is originator of sage math)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage_%28mathematics_software%29

Erik

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Kirk Goins <kgoins at aracnet.com> wrote:
> Can't help with running on Linux but per this link you can get 6mo usage
> as a student for $29.99
> http://www.onthehub.com/minitab/minitab_english.htm
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> Michael Robinson wrote:
>> It looks like it is atrociously expensive to buy a licensed copy and
>> worse than that, it requires from what I can tell a Windows XP system
>> that has 512 megs of ram.  I don't have that.  I have my Linux system
>> with 512 megs of ram.
>>
>> What is the ultimate alternative to using Minitab 15?  I'm needing
>> to use it for a stats course.  Unfortunately, I don't know of any
>> way to use it remotely.  Do the Windows computers at PSU have any
>> means of being accessed remotely?
>>
>> I have the demo version of Minitab 15 which I dowloaded last night,
>> but that is only a 30 day solution and then I guess I have to rent
>> 2 more months.  Man this Minitab outfit is ridiculous.
>>
>> Will Crossover Linux, the most recent version perhaps, run Minitab 15?
>>
>> I suppose I have a laptop that is in use now by my father with 512 megs
>> of ram and Windows XP, but it's in use.  I actually have a Pentium 4
>> desktop computer with a 1.80 Ghz processor and 256 megs of ram, but
>> that isn't enough ram to run Minitab and I don't know what kind of
>> DIMMs it takes.  It's an SIS micro atx board.
>>
>> So I'm stuck either grabbing a copy of XP somehow and dual booting on
>> my Linux system, running Minitab via Wine, or using something else.
>>
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