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[c.]

On 17 Sep 2013, at 10:36, José Luis García Pallero <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> With the beginning of the new academic course, I recommend the use of
> GNU Octave to my students. But they ask always the same question: has
> octave a GUI?
> Well, for Windows exists the OctaveUPM version, but for
> *NIX they need to compile from the sources.

On debian derived systems you can also get a preview of the development version
as explained here:
http://wiki.octave.org/Debian#Pre-compiled_binaries

> How about the develop of
> the official GUI? Come it with the next major release of GNU Octave?
> Is planned to release in the near future?

It is actually planned for the near past:
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Release-Plans-tp4652127.html

> Cheers

c.