Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:37:40 +0200 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: dfeustel@mindspring.com Cc: "fdu.xiaojf@gmail.com" <fdu.xiaojf@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ? Message-ID: <20080611183740.2dbf4315@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <20080611142930.C4CAB8FC12@mx1.freebsd.org> References: <484FCA1C.2080506@gmail.com> <20080611142930.C4CAB8FC12@mx1.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:29:30 +0000 (UTC) dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:50:36PM +0800, fdu.xiaojf@gmail.com wrote: > > > > My current working involves scientific calculation and programming. > > I'm from a linux background(redhat, debian, ubuntu), but after some > > googling and comparison, I found FreeBSD more stable and I want to > > try FreeBSD. I am tired of a dual-boot system, so I want to just > > install FreeBSD or another linux distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my > > notebook. > > > > If FreeBSD runs on your new T61, you can install the Maxima port as a > free alternative to MATLAB and Mathematica. Maxima does symbolic math > and handles tensors. You can run Maxima code that proves that > Einstein's theory of relativity has a far-reaching logical > inconsistancy in it because the theory assumes torsion = 0 and > curvature is nonzero. Non-zero curvature implies torsion also is > non-zero. See the code in paper 93 at > http://www.aias.us/index.php?goto=showPageByTitle&pageTitle=Unified_Field_Theory_papers Maxima is great! The following may also be quite useful: http://www.scipy.org/ http://code.google.com/p/sympy/ http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ If you prefer an integrated environment, try: http://sagemath.org/ -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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