Working on Ubuntu, thinking if I could create my assignment tasks from the university without restarting the system and booting into windows, I searched Synaptic for MATLAB and found in the first few results FreeMat. From the Synaptic’s description,
FreeMat is a free environment for rapid engineering and scientific prototyping and data processing. It is similar to commercial systems such as MATLAB from Mathworks, and IDL from Research Systems, but is Open Source. FreeMat is available under the GPL license.
Tried running a couple of tasks I have previously programmed and voila all of them worked :D. It stood at only under 10mb, is fast and suited perfect for the small algorithm implementations we are working on in the university.
URL: http://freemat.sourceforge.net/
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FreeMat on Ubuntu
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