Interesting to know. I've only been using Solaris for a little over a year, and I've been more familiar with blastwave.org and the new opensolaris source juicer repository ( jucr.opensolaris.org ).
I think it would be more useful to distribute sage for solaris as a zone with a preconfigured (which could be easily tweaked of course) notebook set to run on boot than as a package, though precompiled tars are always welcome. I use the precompiled sage 3.4.2 for solaris daily... Last I checked though, I had some issues getting the notebook running in opensolaris (non-global zone or otherwise). As for Virtualbox, I've been using it for a while now and it is pretty slick - the 3.0.x series also sports pretty good 3d (opengl and some directx, for windows) acceleration pass-through. On Jul 25, 8:19 pm, David Kirkby <drkir...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/7/26 William Stein <wst...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 4:57 PM, David Kirkby<drkir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> 2009/7/25 Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu>: > > >>> I've learned to never underestimate the ignorance of computer users. > >>> It's not that they're all unintelligent, but the number of people > >>> that just want to use a computer vastly outnumbers the number of > >>> people that want to learn anything about computers. Often they just > >>> want to spend their time learning about different things (just as I > >>> want to drive a car, but personally have no interest in repairing > >>> one). "Download this file and double-click on it" or "go to this site > >>> and create a username/password" is fine for most people, but as we > >>> learned with 7zip, anything more, even with a clear README.txt, is a > >>> surprisingly high barrier. > > >>> Of course, even now, there are lots of windows users (at least it > >>> seems to be the largest download). > > >> I wonder if it would be possible to create a setup.exe which someone > >> downloaded, clicked on the setup.exe, which then installed the vmware > >> software, set up Sage, and *everything* with them doing no more than > >> they would with any other windows application? > > > No, that would be illegal and a violation of the vmware terms of use. > > However, it would be possible to do something like that using one of > > the open source virtualization solutions (e.g., Virtual Box), or using > > AndLinux. I recently started playing around with Virtual Box again, > > and think it's made a lot of improvements in Version 3.x, and that we > > should consider switching to it from vmware for the sage windows > > virtual machine. > > Perhaps consider doing it with VirtualBox then. > > > Using Sage via virtualization in windows has many drawbacks and also > > many advantages. > > I suspect many of those disadvantages relate to unfamiliarity rather > than real technical issues. But I've never been a great fan of > windows, so I've not tried it. > > On thing I've been puzzling over is that when we get a Solaris binary, > it would be possible for a package to be built. Sunfreeware is > probably the best known site for Solaris binaries. But the person that > runs it, Steven Christensen, has quite a few connections with Wolfram > Reserach; I don't believe he is an employee, but has his own blog on > their site, he is the administorator of the Mathematica newgroup. It > would be intersting to see how he reacts if asked to produce a package > for a product like Sage. > > Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
