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# Blog posts tagged "sc:snap:octave-snap"

#### [Octave turns to snaps to reduce dependency on Linux distribution maintainers](https://canonical.com/blog/octave-turns-to-snaps-to-reduce-dependency-on-linux-distribution-maintainers)

Octave is a numerical computing environment largely compatible with MATLAB. As free software, Octave runs on GNU/Linux, macOS, BSD, and Windows. At the 2019 Snapcraft Summit, Mike Miller and Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso of the Octave team worked on creating an Octave snap in stable and beta versions for the Snap Store.  As Mike and Jordi

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