hi,
I want to choose between octave and scilab, somebody can give us an overview
about advantages and disadvantages for each.
Now I am using scilab 5.3 and I have a problem ( with graphic interface) because it uses java and opengl for the interface. the devloppers said that the pb will be fixed in next version??!!!

I want to switch to octave, before i want to be sure that is the good decision!!

thanks for help
regards

Hello!
I want to transfer the computer studing process from using mathcad to using octave or scilab (or freemat or python-xy).

I began to write the studybook about applying GNU Octave in Civil Engineering. I use Linux operating system by myself, but at my university Windows XP is everywhere. I thought that Octave 3.6 is installing very easy in Windows (it was in 3.2 version) like maxima and scilab. But I was very surprised when found instead simple *.msi the 7zip archives and the whole paper of instructions how to install it in Windows. Installation is not automated at all. After unpacking I must to rebuild the packages, to define the system path, to edit the startup script (with unix-like carriage returning, Notepad useless), to edit Geany or Notepad++ preferences and other. I did all, but when I finally tryed to run my prepared 'script.m' from Geany, it sent me an errors of octave (script work fine in Linux and octave 3.2). In Ubuntu 12.04 I found only version 3.2.

I don't see the happy future of Octave clearly (as I saw with 3.2 version), so I switched writing the book to Scilab.

P.S. I love Python. I look on octave/scilab because Python-xy (it is just a nominal name for libraries I use with python everywhere) is based on dying python-2.