On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > FWIW, a Google on Cywin brings up 4.8 million hits. On VirtualBox 4.2 million > hits. Considering Cywin was released in 1995 and VirtualBox in 2007, it would > suggest to me its a more popular tool today.
VirtualBox has all the drawbacks of a virtual machine. Some of the main ones being that it is slow to start up, has large disk and memory usage, and has relatively poor integration with the host operating system's filesystem by default. As William said, a Cygwin version of Sage would be far closer to a "native" application than using it through VirtualBox. --Mike -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
