Sage: OS alternative to Mathematica; powerful mathematics software system

[everypot]

I used to use mathematica which cost a few hundred/thousand(enough to buy a new laptop). I find Sage is also very powerful, although it has fewer features. Cross platform: windows, linux, opensolaris, mac osx. It would be great if someone could port Sage. [Update: seems that someone has been working on the port. But it is not quite usable now. http://wiki.sagemath.org/freebsd]

Official site: http://www.sagemath.org/


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[everypot]

FreeBSD 8.x, " substantial work has been done on this, and a port during 2010 is highly likely" .

http://wiki.sagemath.org/suggested-for-supported-platforms

[ctaranotte]

You may want to look at this: Sage FreeBSD 7.x and 8.x build notes for Sage 4.1 and 4.1.1 (http://wiki.sagemath.org/freebsd/sage-4.1)

And also this: Sage Components (http://www.sagemath.org/links-components.html)