MathCad replacement?

[Paul Smith]

On 9/22/05, Jean-Rene Cormier <jrc at jrcormier.com> wrote:
> > >>    map> On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 22:00 -0300, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
> > >>    >> Hi, we have MathCad on our University laptops and I was wondering if
> > >>    >> there's something opensource like it for Linux.
> > >>    map>
> > >>    map> From the few times I've used MathCad - I'd have to say no. Not open
> > >>    map> source anyway.
> > >>
> > >>Would Maxima meet your needs? (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/)
> > >
> > >
> > > Yeah looks like it could do what I need, I'll have to install it and
> > > give it a try, thanks!
> > >
> >
> > Warning.
> >
> > I just tried xmaxima from FC4 extras and it crashed my xserver.  This is
> > a bug in xmaxima and is submitted on
> >    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168451
> >
> > This cost me some time in lost work.
>
> Thanks for the heads up, I'll make sure to give it a try when I don't
> have anything running.

MuPAD can also be a good choice:

http://www.mupad.de/download.html

Paul