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<h3 class="section">1.4 On what platforms does Octave run?</h3>
<p>Octave runs on various Unices—at least Linux and Solaris, Mac OS X,
Windows and anything you can compile it on. Binary distributions exist
at least for Debian, Suse, Fedora and RedHat Linuxes (Intel and AMD
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CPUs, at least), for Mac OS X and Windows' 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7.
<p>Two and three dimensional plotting is fully supported using gnuplot and
an experimental OpenGL backend.
<p>The underlying numerical solvers are currently standard Fortran ones
like LAPACK, LINPACK, ODEPACK, the BLAS, etc., packaged in a library
of C++ classes. If possible, the Fortran subroutines are compiled
with the system's Fortran compiler, and called directly from the C++
functions. If that's not possible, you can still compile Octave if
you have the free Fortran to C translator f2c.
<p>Octave is also free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3, as
published by the Free Software Foundation, or at your option any later
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