Rob, *1)* and/or *2)* can be changed to your request seamlessly.
*3)* Has more than one solution: If you *"burn" the .iso on a pendrive of the current version* (as recommended and explained in the bottom of the README file that comes along with three files you can find in here: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/4cfbbc60579d2e74#) that *just happens once, when you first boot it*, and never after then. And of course runs much faster, is more practical, etc. If I release the next version and run ./sage while building it, it probably won't come out with the "install tree moved" deal and even booting from a cd won't ever make it appear. *4)* Before I built this .iso I downloaded and tried Alfredo's 3.2.2 version. The point is that when you boot it up it consumes around 510 Mibs RAM (you can check it typing "free" at the command line). After you drop caches (as root in the terminal "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches") it sticks around 310 Mibs RAM and that's it, unless you start killing processes it won't get lower. Since my IBM Thinkpad T60 just has 512 Mibs RAM, running SAGE on his 3.2.2 live cd was terrible. So I decided to build my own distro and then told William about it. The focus on it is of course to save as much resources as possible. That's one of the reasons it uses fluxbox and not xfce and when it boots up consumes around 382 Mibs and after you drop the caches it sticks in 215 Mibs. That's also why the menu is so minimal, I swear even my grandma could run sage and not get lost among the icons and that kind of stuff. Also one of the coolest things about fluxbox is that you can mod the menu as you want and it does reflect the changes just after you saved the "menu" file. Finally don't worry about plagiarism, the construction of my .iso is based upon a total different process than Alfredo's. You can see the whole instructions to build it in the "sagelwlcd.tar.gz" file which can be downloaded from the link I posted you in point *3)* Hope I answered your questions and if there are more, or any requests, no problem just post them. Greetings, Lucio. On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: > > On Mar 21, 1:19 am, Lucio Lastra <luciolas...@gmail.com> wrote: > As said before I appreciate any feedback you can give me > on the past release (comments, etc). The same in case people > you know wants to try it out. > > > Hi Lucio, > > Several suggestions and comments. I've got a basic idea of what is > involved here, but can't say for certain what is easy or hard. ;-) > But first, I think the lighter and easier the better, as a way of > introducing Sage (and Linux) to folks (like my students), and > especially introducing Sage to people who aren't always on a network > and can't rely on something like sagenb.org and may also have old > hardware (schools?). > > 1. How about two sets of "echo" statements in your scripts (maybe in > bright colors?) that explain the need for the return after the network- > manager tool and then also explain the "sudo startx" command, perhaps > also with the right-click for the menu. > > 2. It'd be great if some of the above could be automated - so that a > user gets a console window with a sage prompt with the least possible > intervention. > > 3. Any way to adjust the Sage installation so all the "install tree > moved" and "DOT_SAGE" setup tasks are already completed in what is > distributed on the CD? Seems that since this is a LiveCD maybe all > that configuration info would be identical on each boot? > > 4. Have you looked at the LiveCD on the Sage site, which I think is > maintained by Alfredo Portes? It seems very similar, using xubuntu, > but xfce instead of fluxbox. Is there as much overlap as their > appears to be? Would this be a good project to collaborate on? > > Thanks, > Rob > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
