Scilab is a major software in the scientific and education world. It is widely used in many different fields. The version 5 is a major improvement over the 4.X family. It is now free (under CeCILL license... compatible with the GPL). Here a list of new features: http://www.scilab.org/changes_5/
Packages that Christoph is advocating have been very testing and are lintian free.
Hello Luca,
Scilab is a major software in the scientific and education world. It is widely used in many different fields. The version 5 is a major improvement over the 4.X family. It is now free (under CeCILL license... compatible with the GPL). Here a list of new features: http:// www.scilab. org/changes_ 5/
Packages that Christoph is advocating have been very testing and are lintian free.