{"id":32,"date":"2010-05-02T03:33:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T01:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2011-06-18T21:57:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T19:57:52","slug":"free-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/02\/free-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Free software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you are looking for a <a title=\"Free software\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_software\">free software<\/a> clone of Matlab (numerical matrix  computation), give a try to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.octave.org\/\">GNU Octave<\/a>\/<a title=\"QtOctave\" href=\"http:\/\/qtoctave.wordpress.com\/\">QtOctave<\/a> or to <a title=\"FreeMat\" href=\"http:\/\/freemat.sourceforge.net\/\">FreeMat<\/a> or to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scilab.org\/\">Scilab<\/a>. If you are looking for a free software clone of Maple (computer algebra  system), give a try to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xcas\">Giac\/Xcas<\/a> or\u00a0 to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maxima_%28software%29\">Maxima<\/a>\/<a title=\"wxMaxima\" href=\"http:\/\/wxmaxima.sourceforge.net\/\">wxMaxima<\/a>. You may also take a look at <a title=\"SAGE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sagemath.org\/\">SAGE<\/a>. If you are looking for a free software clone of S-Plus (statistical data analysis and graphical representation), give a try to <a title=\"GNU R\" href=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/\">GNU R<\/a>. If you want to install GNU\/Linux on your desktop or laptop computer, try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a>, which is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/\">Debian GNU\/Linux<\/a>. If your laptop is a MacBook, you may also take a look at the  <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/MacBook\">MacBook Ubuntu  Community Documentation<\/a>. If you like Unix but feel that GNU\/Linux is too gregarious, give a try  to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/\">FreeBSD<\/a> (powers Mac OS X).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for a free software clone of Matlab (numerical matrix computation), give a try to GNU Octave\/QtOctave or to FreeMat or to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/02\/free-software\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free software<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":99},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}