For those intereated in numerical computation, the free-to-use Octave package might be appealing: "GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language."
Stephen Fry goes through the history of GNU quite well here: http://www.gnu.org/fry/ GNU stands for "GNU is not Unix", which I never knew! I highly recommend the video.
A GNU/Linux operating system that I found recently is Debian: http://www.debian.org/
A Linux based system that I discovered recently is Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Numerical Computation from GNU
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If you have difficulty with the Fry video, it can also be viewed on Youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcErY4ne5Yw
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