4:59 p.m.
Hi Allin and friends, I've just discovered Quantian, a
quantitative-oriented GNU/Linux live distribution based on Knoppix,
maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel (who incidentally is the Debian
maintainer of gretl :-)
It's available at:
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/
I think it's very useful (amongst other things) as a tool for gretl (and
other free software) advocacy, especially in our Windows-oriented
universities; I can't believe there are so many researchers who just
don't know anything about GNU/Linux or free software here in Italy... :-(
I'll just put it into their cdrom drive and show'em what free software
can do!
I wonder if there are other "live" (no need to install) distributions
that include gretl...
Cri
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2:10 p.m.
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Cristian Rigamonti wrote:
Hi Allin and friends, I've just discovered Quantian, a
quantitative-oriented GNU/Linux live distribution based on Knoppix,
maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel (who incidentally is the Debian
maintainer of gretl :-)
It's available at:
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/
I think it's very useful (amongst other things) as a tool for gretl (and
other free software) advocacy, especially in our Windows-oriented
universities; I can't believe there are so many researchers who just
don't know anything about GNU/Linux or free software here in Italy... :-(
I'll just put it into their cdrom drive and show'em what free software
can do!
I wonder if there are other "live" (no need to install) distributions
that include gretl...
Cri
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I've been following quantian for a while... actually, I originally set up
my home box as a quantian install (so I'd have knoppix-like
automagic hardware setup and the packages I needed right on the CD),
asymptotically converging to debian testing...
I do appreciate quantian, but I feel that
1) It's getting too large: the latest version doesn't even fit on a CD
anymore (and no, not everyone has a DVD drive)
2) As economists, we'd need a more "focused" distro: we don't need all
the
bio/chem stuff, whereas it's a shame GNOME's out (I much prefer GNOME to
KDE)
3) Custom knoppix stuff should be kept to a minimum, so convergence
towards standard Debian would be easier for those who install the whole
thing on hard disk. Some months ago, a sysv-init transition (or something
like that) had me fixing stuff for a whole night.
That said, quantian rocks!
Riccardo `Jack' Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università di Ancona
jack(a)dea.unian.it
http://www.econ.unian.it/lucchetti
9:52 a.m.
El Domingo, 11 de Julio de 2004 16:10, Riccardo 'Jack' Lucchetti escribió:
I also have been following Quantian for a while. I think it is a very
interesting way to introduce free econometric and statistical software to our
students. This year I gave a copy of Quantian to a group of (Mathematical
Economics) students.
I do appreciate quantian, but I feel that
1) It's getting too large: the latest version doesn't even fit on a CD
anymore (and no, not everyone has a DVD drive)
I agree with Jack Luchetti on this. I don't have a DVD drive, and I think my
students neither.
From the point of view of the languages, Quantian has also some
problems.
Spanish is not a default language in Tetex so, although you can activate
the
Spanish keyboard at start time runnig "knoppix lang=es", you can not use
Spanish hyphenation in Latex. Furthermore, even you start Quantian with
"lang=es" Gretl starts in english. I am not an expert in Debian so, probably
I can solve myself the language configuration problems but I don't know how
to do it.
Apart from this, I also think Quantian is very interesting. Recently I
discovered (also in Quantian) Yacas, a program for algebra calculus that
helped to solve some problems with lag polinomials.
--
Ignacio Díaz-Emparanza
Dpto. de Economía Aplicada III (Econometría y Estadística)
UPV-EHU
http://www.bl.ehu.es/~etpdihei/
2:07 a.m.
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Cristian Rigamonti wrote:
Hi Allin and friends, I've just discovered Quantian, a
quantitative-oriented GNU/Linux live distribution based on Knoppix,
maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel (who incidentally is the Debian
maintainer of gretl :-)
It's available at:
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/
I need to give Quantian a try. I've been very impressed by Knoppix,
but that's the only CD-based Linux variant that I've tried to date.
Of course gretl is available for Windows, but I agree: by preference,
gretl should be seen in the context of a larger world of free,
open-source software.
On a different matter: my current project, now completed apart from
the final packaging, is full gretl support for Stock and Watson's
"Introduction to Econometrics" (data files and replication scripts).
S and W kindly agreed to let me distribute the data in gretl format.
Allin.
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