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GNU Octave is primarily developed on GNU/Linux and other POSIX conformal systems. The ports of GNU Octave to Windows use different approaches to get most of the original Octave and adapt it to Microsoft Windows idiosyncrasies (eg: dynamic libraries, file paths, permissions, environment variables, GUI system, etc). Bear this in mind and don't panic if you get unexpected results. There are a lot of suggestions on the mailing lists for tuning your Octave installation. | GNU Octave is primarily developed on GNU/Linux and other POSIX conformal systems. The ports of GNU Octave to Windows use different approaches to get most of the original Octave and adapt it to Microsoft Windows idiosyncrasies (eg: dynamic libraries, file paths, permissions, environment variables, GUI system, etc). Bear this in mind and don't panic if you get unexpected results. There are a lot of suggestions on the mailing lists for tuning your Octave installation. | ||
About version numbers | About version numbers: | ||
*The 3.6.x are | *The 3.8.x are current releases. Good luck finding binary packages. | ||
*The 3.4.x are | *The 3.6.x are previous releases. | ||
*The 3.2.x are very old releases. | *The 3.4.x are very old releases. | ||
*The 3.2.x are very, very old releases. | |||
GNU Octave standalone ports for Windows are independently compiled using either the MinGW or Microsoft Visual Studio development environments. The latest versions can be downloaded from the Octave Forge Project at SourceForge.net and are often, but not always, up to date with the latest version of the GNU Octave source code. | GNU Octave standalone ports for Windows are independently compiled using either the MinGW or Microsoft Visual Studio development environments. The latest versions can be downloaded from the Octave Forge Project at SourceForge.net and are often, but not always, up to date with the latest version of the GNU Octave source code. | ||