MathCad replacement?

[Robin Laing]

Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:39 -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
> 
>>>>>>>"map" == Michael A Peters <mpeters at mac.com> writes:
>>
>>    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.

I have since removed it.
-- 
Robin Laing