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  • Re: New Maxima Version 5.48.1

    From DFS@nospam@dfs.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Jan 5 11:51:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 8/9/2025 10:32 AM, Lameass Larry Piet (aka Farley Flud) wrote:

    Well, Maxima 5.48.1 is released:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-source/


    Wrong link, Flud The Dud. You do everything the hard (stupid) way.

    What you want is the Windows version:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-Windows/5.49.0-Windows/

    "Maxima 5.49.0 Windows Installer
    These installers contains Maxima and the required/optional components
    CLisp, SBCL, TCL/TK, wxWidgets, wxMaxima, Gnuplot and VTK."


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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Tue Jan 6 07:59:05 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 11:51:38 -0500, DFS wrote:

    What you want is the Windows version:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-Windows/5.49.0-Windows/

    "Maxima 5.49.0 Windows Installer These installers contains Maxima
    and the required/optional components CLisp, SBCL, TCL/TK, wxWidgets, wxMaxima, Gnuplot and VTK."

    Ideologically pure Windows software. Loyal Microsofties need not worry
    about contaminating their machines with FOSS.

    ... oh, wait ...
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  • From Farley Flud@fsquared@fsquared.linux to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Tue Jan 6 11:10:45 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:59:05 +0000, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:


    "Maxima 5.49.0 Windows Installer These installers contains Maxima
    and the required/optional components CLisp, SBCL, TCL/TK, wxWidgets,
    wxMaxima, Gnuplot and VTK."

    Ideologically pure Windows software. Loyal Microsofties need not worry
    about contaminating their machines with FOSS.

    ... oh, wait ...


    Except it runs like shit on M$. In fact, every GNU/Linux program that
    is packaged for M$ runs poorly compared to its performance on GNU/Linux.

    Pan, the newsreader, is another example. The M$ packaging of Pan leads
    to nearly constant crashing.
    --
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