On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:52:38 +0100 "Fabio Tonti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, yes I most definitely would, since I don't always have my > Laptop with me and also work on non-Unix machines (unfortunatly). > So I think its feasible to have a "live"-option around. But maybe the > effort to create one should just be postponed? > Now there's another thing which comes to my mind: Wouldn't it be > easiest if a live-distro included Sage? I just read Michael Abshoff's > Blog post, and he writes that Pardus or Debian might include Sage! > Wouldn't that just solve the problem? Sage is too big to be on the live CDs of these distributions. Those live CDs are prepared especially to let people experiment with the operating system without messing up any of the software on their computer, and they include everyday desktop applications as a priority, not mathematical software. Developing a live CD (hmm.. DVD) for Sage would have to be an independent project. We could use the tools they developed to prepare the images though. However, read below... > On Jan 4, 2008 10:43 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 3, 2008 1:46 AM, Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's a very good idea for demonstrations... Imagine having sage > > > on a USB-drive an booting it directly!!!! > > > > Would _you_ actually use it. So far in this thread only one > > person -- Tim Daly -- has said they would actually use a live > > CD of Sage. Actually, he only said he would "use a live cd", > > but he didn't specifically say he would use a live cd of Sage. I don't think a live cd of Sage is necessary. The biggest advantage of a live cd is that it lets you experiment with the software without modifying anything on your system. This is great for marketing purposes, but pointless for everyday use. Since the notebook servers (sagenb.com) already provide an environment where people can play around with Sage without having to install any software, the effort to prepare/test/burn a live cd of Sage would be wasted. The situation is different for other open source mathematical software, and there are obvious advantages to distributing them on a live cd to spare people from the hassle of handling dependencies and build problems just to try something for 10 minutes. Burcin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
