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Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi

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Re: Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi

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Selecting previously unselected package wolfram-engine:armhf. Preparing to unpack .../80-wolfram-engine_13.1.0+20220824413_armhf.deb ... wolfram-eula license has already been accepted Is there a way through the Activation Key, Activate Online prompt? I think I tried what was possible and never got through.

What is your question?

Re: Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi

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I remember trying to get it running on a rPI 3 (just 1gb ram) and was huge to download and slow as molasses to boot? did it improve, btw ?

rpi 4 with 4gb of ram is decent.

That's getting you thr point where you may as well pay for a lifetime license for a real computer.

Re: Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi

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If Linux is a "Walled garden" the phrase has no meaning.

What does it mean then that Windows is a walled garden? That it can only run Windows software? How is then Linux also not a walled garden?

Wine is just a few clicks away in most distros or go to https://www.winehq.org/ and follow the instructions there. It can run quite a bit of Windows software. I've just spent a pleasant few minutes playing 3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet,

Re: Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linux quickly becomes a quagmire of impracticality once you dare to step outside of the distro-provided or -recommended repositories, so much I would argue it's functionally a walled garden at that point. By contrast, on Windows you can install, run, upgrade, and downgrade whatever you want whenever you want however you want without sacrificing practicality.

This is among the most insane mind acrobatics that I have read in many years. Twisting meanings to make one of the biggest straight jackets among server and desktop OSes that I have ever encountered in my career sound like it's some kind of heaven of freedom is just outright disgusting. (edit: grammar)

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Re: Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi

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I'm wondering if anybody have managed to run it on Asahi.

It checks for Pi-specific hardware devices, so you’re unlikely to get it going there.

I've run it on a PC using QEMU a few years back, though maybe the hardware detection has improved. I followed instructions similar to this:

https://blog.agchapman.com/using-qemu-to-emulate-a-raspberry...

Re: Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi

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I use Mathematica frequently and, within the niche that it serves, it is starting to remind me a lot of Excel. Both are commercial software, have a low barrier to entry, are powerful enough to run the software for a nuclear power plant, have enough footguns to make this a terrible idea, and are so overused that it might be happening anyway. But I do not think we will get rid of it any time soon.

Could you expand on, for a person who only dabbled with Mathematica some time back, what that niche is?

It's extremely versatile which makes it able to solve some neat problems. My favorite example is this was a CodeGolf to find if a goat in an image is upside down. - https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or...

Re: Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi

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I wonder who paid who in this deal. Is free Mathematica used to prop up an OS no one uses, on boards no one can buy(for their normal prices). Or is it raspberry pi foundation taking part in Wolfram advertising? Mathematica is a very nice product, but it's expensive. They tend to "get" people by offering cheap licenses through universities. Then there is free and open source Octave. It is just as good for everything I used it for, but sometimes code for Mathematica requires tweaking before it could run on Octave.

Re: Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi

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Linux is more like a walled garden than Windows? Maybe you have a different definition of walled garden or something...

Linux quickly becomes a quagmire of impracticality once you dare to step outside of the distro-provided or -recommended repositories, so much I would argue it's functionally a walled garden at that point. By contrast, on Windows you can install, run, upgrade, and downgrade whatever you want whenever you want however you want without sacrificing practicality.

My experience has been: Download tarball, extract to /opt, optionally create .desktop file. I've yet to have a problem with this.

Maybe we have been working with different packages or distros?

Re: Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi

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I wonder who paid who in this deal. Is free Mathematica used to prop up an OS no one uses, on boards no one can buy(for their normal prices). Or is it raspberry pi foundation taking part in Wolfram advertising? Mathematica is a very nice product, but it's expensive. They tend to "get" people by offering cheap licenses through universities. Then there is free and open source Octave. It is just as good for everything I…

I think you’re confusing Mathematica and Matlab here.
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