Dear All,
I just received my first Raspberry Pi B+ a couple of days ago and started playing around with Mathematica (10.0.0, newest release retrieved by sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wolfram-engine
) using a SSH remote X-redirection via putty to a local Xming server on my Win7 notebook.
So far everything works great (even though of course not lightning fast on this tiny platform), with exception of the functionalities of the predicting interface (auto completion and suggestions bar) which seem to me not being available or turned off by default on the Pi.
Am I doing something wrong or is this a toll taken by the limited performance of the Pi, or maybe a side-effect of my X-windows redirection? I have much understanding that a free version of such a highly sophisticated software like Mathematica running on a low-end HW platform like the Pi must take some tolls, however, as the Pi is primarily targeted for educational reasons, especially the presence of the suggestions bar would be invaluable for discovering and learning the Wolfram Language!
Regardless of the availability or unavailability of the predictive interface, I like to point out that I really appreciate Wolfram's step to provide Mathematica for free for educational and personal usage on the Pi! I wish I had such a tremendous powerful math tool available when I studied computer science and physics some three decades ago! :) As Stephen said in a (TED?) speech I saw about 1-2 years ago, our mathematics education system urgently needs to be revised in a way so that pupils and students already learn in very early stages how to USE math to solve REAL LIVE problems rather than to be just "tortured" by been forced to reiteratively over and over again pure mathematical mechanics, which can be performed today by CAS in a ten-thousands split of the time even very talented humans would need on a piece of paper. That's waste of time, and even worse, waste of talent. Mathematica and Wolfram Language provides a way out of this, like sewing machines revolutionized the mode of operation of tailors just about 150 years ago, Or like Johannes Gutenberg changed public enlightenment forever with his invention of the printing press. To Stephan and the entire Wolfram team, thank you for this!
Regards Sven