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wxMaxima vs Cantor: catalog facts
wxMaxima	Cantor
Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 or later licence.	Free Free KDE application.
Linux	Windows, Linux
Menus and dialogs for common Maxima commands Inline plots and simple animations	One worksheet interface for many maths and statistics backends Supports Maxima, R, Octave, Python, Sage and more
Still requires learning Maxima for advanced work Interface is functional rather than modern	The backends themselves must be installed separately Less widely used than Jupyter notebooks
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0-or-later	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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