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Originally Posted by AprilHare
If it can run Linux, it could run Maxima IMO. The GUI might be another matter entirely though.
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I've just checked the screenshot section of maxima, and it looks as there are four front-eds (GUIs) available: command-line, emacs, texmacs and Xmaxima (uses tcl/tk).
compiling maxima can be reasonable (it doesn't have many dependencies, see
http://packages.debian.org/etch/maxima ), and xmaxima is also reasonable (tcl/tk is the only dependency, and I've compiled tcl/tk for the iliad in the past without much trouble, although I finally ended not testing it).
What I don't know if texmacs would be a better front-end for students (I used in the past mathcad and its document oriented paradigm was very useful for me then). OTOH, Texmacs can be very tough to compile (has a lot of dependencies).
My two cents
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Originally Posted by maciekdendzik
Is anyone interested in this project? I have lot of free time recently but I am not so into porting to manage to this alone. However, If only someone could help me it would be wonderful. IMO maxima would be extremely useful for students.
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I don't have time for it, but I can try to answer any* question you have about iliad development. I have not used the official toolchain, but the unofficial scratchbox-based one; If you want to try i can assist you in your troubles :-).
And I'm sure other developers will assist you too!
* Well, really not any question, but a lot of them nevertheless O:-).