On Wednesday, September 13, 2006 12:58 PM William Stein wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:13:56 -0700, Enrique Acosta wrote: > > ... > > I am using sage on windows with coLinux. ... > > We've decided not to support SAGE-with-cygwin anymore. > > > tried the CoLinux one and made it work after some settings on > > the network connections. Some explanation of that in the > > documentation could be useful. Everything is working fine now > > and I think the notebook interface is really useful. > ... > > Last week I also tried the Vmware version to see what were the > > differences and had a terrible experience. > > I don't recommend or support using that. Colinux is the way to > go.
See: http://colinux.org So, finally a linux solution that actually works with Windows? I want to hear more. > > > First of all, I copuld not load the notebook, and then found > > a serious limitations with the fact that you cannot copy and > > paste from windows to Vmware and vice-versa. > > Yes, vmware is really not a good solution. > ... > > VMware is not worth using. You should use colinux. > ... > > The last experience which I have had with sage, was when > > trying to use it on a Knoppix live CD. Is this possible? > > I have tried it for two days unsuccesfully, although I have > > to accept I am a complete Linux Newbie... > > I've never done this, but the following might work: > (1) Put the SAGE binary on a USB drive: > http://modular.math.washington.edu/SAGEbin/linux_32bit/ > You probably want the ubuntu binary -- hopefully it will work. > You could use ubuntu's live CD -- then for sure that binary > would work. > (2) Boot into the live CD environment. > (3) Plug in the USB drive. > (4) Type "tar xvf sage-1.3.7-ubuntu-i686-Linux.tar.gz" > to extract the binary (the extracted version is 333MB). > (5) type "cd sage-1.3.7-ubuntu-i686-Linux" > (6) type "./sage" > (7) type notebook() to get the SAGE notebook. > (8) Anything in SAGE that requires compiling, e.g., > rebuilding / upgrading, developing compiled code, etc., > will fail since live CD's don't include GCC by default. > > > Anyway, I'm trying this because I want to use SAGE on a pretty old > > dell laptop which is running windows but has only a 2GB > hard disk and > > on which I cannot install linux since its a shared computer. I don't > > know if you know if this is possible to do, or have considered the > > idea of building a linux live CD with an already installed SAGE to > > have a portable version of the programm which could use a > usb drive to > > save sessions, notebooks and everything. It would be great! > > People have suggested before building such a live CD, and > I've been very encouraging, but nobody has actually stepped > up to do it yet. Maybe you are the person to do it. The > crucial thing is that you should install GCC into the live cd, > but get rid of things you don't need, like openoffice > which is often in live cd's. > On the Axiom developer web site we host the Doyen project http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/Doyen and such a live CD has been developed: http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/DoyenCD "Doyen is a Science Platform. It features a Live CD that contains free and open source science software and a Wiki user interface that runs on a laptop." Right now the DoyenCD contains only Axiom, Magnus and Maxima. We have been discussing add Sage and it's friends. A complete description of how the DoyenCD was built is provided here: http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/DoyenDocs Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
