Mike Hansen wrote: > 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 >
I can understand some of the drawbacks of VirtualBox. This computer has 8 cores at 3.333 GHz, 12 GB RAM and 2.5 TB disk (all mirrored). VirutalBox is not much of a drain on the resources. I suppose I've always approached Cywin in the opposite direction to Windows users. They are going to see it as a way of running Sage on a platform (Windows) familiar to them. I've always considered Cygwin as a rather poor Unix environment compared to a real Unix computer. Perhaps that's why I see Cywgin less favorably than others. Dave -- 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
