

For example $ feenoxĪ free no-fee no-X uniX-like finite-element(ish) computational engineering tool Lines not starting with a dollar sign show the The $ itself does not have to be typed as Starting with $ show commands that ought to be typed into In the following sections there will be terminal mimics. With working with the terminal, issuing commands, etc. Spend some time (which will be really worth it) familiarizing Your favorite search engine, watch some videos online or-even better-askįor help. If you do not know what this means, look it up in Like) as a regular user and that you have permissions to use (i.e. a GNU/Linux terminal, MacOS or even Cygwin or something of the Up to this point, I assume you have access to a Unix-like shell Note that any of these three options is at least as difficult as use a GNU/Linux box through an virtual computer emulator.use a containerized GNU/Linux (e.g. with docker),.fire up a virtual GNU/Linux server in a cloud provider (e.g. AWS,Īzure, DigitalOcean, Contabo, etc.) and connect through SSH, or.

System and still do not want to spend any time nor effort on doing If you do not currently use GNU/Linux as your main operating

Names of the packages being installed as dependencies may vary from If you already use GNU/Linux then you are almost set! Anyĭistribution will do, although FeenoX is developed in Debian so apt-get (orĪpt) will be used as the package manager. Windows if you are doing computational science.” “It is really worth any amount of time and effort to get away from This sentence from PETSc’s Matt Kneppley from 2015 speaks for Native GNU/Linux distribution as the main operating system, either in a The best way to learn and to understand how FeenoX works is to use a In order to take the tutorials that follow, it is then recommended to neither free-as-in-free-beer nor open source.not cloud-friendly, let alone cloud-first and.This is highly discouraged because those two operating systems Theoretically, the tool could be compiled and run in otherĪrchitectures such as Windows or MacOS in a non-cloud approach.
