Re: need Linux that will work

On 14/01/2005 18:42, Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 14/01/2005 18:10, Nick Iorio wrote:
>> I've now gone thru my 3rd Linux and still can't find one that will 
>> work with both comedi and matlab.
>> 1) Fedora Core worked fine with comedi but its gcc was too new for the 
>> matlab compiler
>> 2) Red Hat worked fine with matlab but could not install comedi
>> 3) debian r4 has too old version (2.2) of Linux kernel for matlab 
>> (needs at leastt 2.4)
>> I'm not an IT person and don't know where to go from here.  Any 
>> suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> I'm not a Debian user myself, but the current Debian "stable" 
> distribution includes the 2.4.18 kernel.  As this is Debian, the gcc 
> compiler should be old enough. :-)

But it looks like Debian stable's gcc is *too* old for MATLAB 7.0, so 
you'll probably have to install GCC 3.2 from Debian "testing".

Received on 2005-01-14Z18:59:19