Octave for DebianScience.
Several questions have been raised during Helen's conference about Octave.
The goal of this wiki page is to provide all relevant answers and much more.
Victor Munoz opinion (Octave is really useful)
- Sparse matrix algorithms
A comment from Octave help mailing list. It seems sparse matrix algorithms are actually implemented.
octave-forge sparse matrix implementation page.
- Octave / Matlab compatibility
For users looking for a Simulink replacement that is compatible with Octave, a good tool is SciCraft (http://www.scicraft.org/) that is a Simulink like tool that uses Octave and R as the computational backend.
Package maintenance
Thinks related to Octave that might be packaged
koctave upstream unofficial deb