Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 07:05:54 UTC+1 schrieb Jan Groenewald:
Hi Jason,
No, I don't have an account. Yes, that would be reasonable from my side.
Regards,
Jan
Maybe ask W. Stein directly about server access. I think it should be
possible to get an account.
Although I made the
Hi
This is now http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13966
Could the author of each LiveCD/USB image send a one or two-line
description of it? Of when it is appropriate?
Size of image, Hardware Requirements (32/64 bit, resource requirements of
desktop environment), languages, whether or not
Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 10:54:39 UTC+1 schrieb Jan Groenewald:
Hi
This is now http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13966
Could the author of each LiveCD/USB image send a one or two-line
description of it? Of when it is appropriate?
Size of image, Hardware Requirements (32/64
1. Sage LiveCD, based on Ubuntu 12.04.1, with Sage 5.5 Source Code, and all
build and runtime dependencies
size: 1.5 GB iso file, 64bit, EN+FR on image, other languages available
from repos, automatic updates from aims/sagemath PPA.
2. Sage LiveCD, based on Ubuntu 12.04.1, with Sage 5.5 compiled,
Hi
On 15 January 2013 23:47, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote:
I'm really interested in a USB image that I can hand to students that want
to do development with me that:
* I can modify (to include the Sage cell server, git, etc., for example)
* have all the development tools
Am Donnerstag, 17. Januar 2013 16:56:41 UTC+1 schrieb Jan Groenewald:
Hi
On 15 January 2013 23:47, Jason Grout jason...@creativetrax.comjavascript:
wrote:
I'm really interested in a USB image that I can hand to students that
want to do development with me that:
* I can modify (to
Hi Emil,
No, I would rather privately transfer it to someone who can host this kind
of bandwidth. In Africa bandwidth is scarce, and multiple downloads will be
detrimental to our institutional bandwidth. Our better bandwidth on Cape
Town virtual servers cost per MB.
I was hoping to get it on a
On 1/17/13 12:17 PM, Jan Groenewald wrote:
No, I would rather privately transfer it to someone who can host this
kind of bandwidth. In Africa bandwidth is scarce, and multiple downloads
will be detrimental to our institutional bandwidth. Our better bandwidth
on Cape Town virtual servers cost
Hi Jason,
No, I don't have an account. Yes, that would be reasonable from my side.
Regards,
Jan
On 18 January 2013 07:49, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote:
On 1/17/13 12:17 PM, Jan Groenewald wrote:
No, I would rather privately transfer it to someone who can host this
kind
Am Dienstag, 15. Januar 2013 22:47:06 UTC+1 schrieb jason:
On 1/15/13 3:08 AM, Jan Groenewald wrote:
Also if there is interest, a version can be made that installs Ubuntu,
the source code for Sage, and all needed developer tools to build and
run Sage.
I'm really interested in a USB
Right at the moment I see 4 projects maintained from this community with
similar goals or structure:
1) Nicolas M. T's distro based on debian live
2) Jan Groenwalds distro based on Ubuntu
3) my SAGE Live CD distro based on Puppy Linux
4) the Fedora based image of Volker Braun to provide
Hi
I have an ISO installer image (Ubuntu + Sage) which I'd like to make
available to the Sage community.
It is a 1.6G file created by UCK which I'd like to host on Sage servers, to
preserve our institutional bandwidth.
This can be useful to anyone hosting or teaching a Sage workshop, or
willing
Hi
I have an ISO installer image (Ubuntu + Sage) which I'd like to make
available to the Sage community.
It is a 1.6G file created by UCK which I'd like to host on Sage servers,
to preserve our institutional bandwidth.
Great! Please let us know when it's been hosted so we can try it
Hi KCrisman,
I'm not sure what Emil's ISO is. Is it a LIVECD only or an installer too?
(The Ubuntu one is both.) Where can it be downloaded?
For Mac, you need to also use rEFIt boot manager, but you can use the same
ISO for installing Ubuntu:
Am Dienstag, 15. Januar 2013 15:42:16 UTC+1 schrieb Jan Groenewald:
Hi KCrisman,
I'm not sure what Emil's ISO is. Is it a LIVECD only or an installer too?
(The Ubuntu one is both.) Where can it be downloaded?
It is a Live CD, but has of course an installer built in.
You can download it
On 1/15/13 3:08 AM, Jan Groenewald wrote:
Also if there is interest, a version can be made that installs Ubuntu,
the source code for Sage, and all needed developer tools to build and
run Sage.
I'm really interested in a USB image that I can hand to students that
want to do development with me
Hi
Also, once you out the Ubuntu installation on a network, it starts
prompting you for updates, automatically updating its software, including
Sage.
Regards,
Jan
On 15 January 2013 21:34, Emil Widmann emil.widm...@gmail.com wrote:
Am Dienstag, 15. Januar 2013 15:42:16 UTC+1 schrieb Jan
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 10:53:34 PM UTC+8, Thierry
(sage-googlesucks@xxx) wrote:
I am a bit late in replying, because I do not actively follow all
discussions, but since I made the Live CD I have some remarks
== Windows users ==
- virtualbox is not a solution. People running
On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 6:09:34 PM UTC, Emil Widmann wrote:
This is interesting. I compiled the latest live CD with
SAGE_FAT_BINARIES=yes and SAGE_ATLAS_ARCH=base, but now I have a report
that there are problems with sse2 instructions on an old computer.
Fixed in
Hi
I have now used UCK to make a Live CD which has sagemath-upstream-binary
from the PPA.
It is also Ubuntu 12.04.1 with a dist-upgrade up to the latest versions,
and a few other packages
I like (it is debatable what can be included here). It is a 1.6G ISO which
can be written to a USB stick.
It
2012/12/4 Jan Groenewald j...@aims.ac.za
I have now used UCK to make a Live CD which has sagemath-upstream-binary
from the PPA.
It is also Ubuntu 12.04.1 with a dist-upgrade up to the latest versions,
and a few other packages
I like (it is debatable what can be included here). It is a 1.6G
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:07:50AM -0800, tom d wrote:
Thanks for running this, Nicolas, and providing the detailed report!
Well, for the running all the kudos should really go to the
organizers. And all those who helped for the Sage sessions. All I had
to do was to teach Sage to *motivated*
Hey, all!
Thanks for running this, Nicolas, and providing the detailed report!
For converting people to linux: I'm working with a computer lab in Maseno,
where we've now got linux dual-booting on all of the machines (about 40).
Over the last couple months, we've gained a number of linux
Hey, all;
So the Mombasa algebraic geometry workshop is set for 6-28 July, 2013.
Which is really long! They're interested in having some sage sessions; if
anyone's interested in coming out I can plan to be there for an overlapping
time and co-hosting the Sage sessions. (However, the first
Hi Tom,
Do you have a link to a workshop web page?
Regards,
Jan
On 20 November 2012 15:35, tom d sdent...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey, all;
So the Mombasa algebraic geometry workshop is set for 6-28 July, 2013.
Which is really long! They're interested in having some sage sessions; if
anyone's
For information, I will give a short course (one day) about Sage in
Algeria next January.
There is a joint French-Maghreb CNRS research unit in Maths; the idea is
to help develop computing, all sorts of computing in Maghreb. The
Algerian (the others too) are very enthusiastic.
As the
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 10:00:42 AM UTC+1, Nicolas M. Thiéry wrote:
- Having more Sage mirrors in Africa (although the network issues were
more in the last kilometer).
Hi, thank's for this detailed report and the discussion. I'm somewhat
responsible for the mirror network, and I
Le dimanche 11 novembre 2012 10:00:42 UTC+1, Nicolas M. Thiéry a écrit :
That was a good occasion for a real-life evaluation of a claim I have
been desiring to make for a long time: �Sage, being open-source, is
well adapted for universities in developing countries�.
2012/11/15 parisse bernard.pari...@ujf-grenoble.fr
But perhaps I'm wrong and you also spread the word that some good
open-source math softwares run on say Windows XP (or even Windows 98).
But then why should developing countries use an old, buggy and proprietary
software when they can get for
2012/11/14 Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com
I'm curious: how does the software selection compare to, for example,
mathbuntu (http://www.mathbuntu.org/), particularly the math packages?
I just tried, that distro does NOT contain Sage, just a link to the Sage
Notebook.
--
*Andrea
But then why should developing countries use an old, buggy and proprietary
software when they can get for free modern, top class open source operating
systems? :)
Because they are used to work with windows, they don't know linux and they
don't know someone who can explain how to use it.
On 11/15/12 3:22 PM, Andrea Lazzarotto wrote:
2012/11/14 Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com
mailto:jason-s...@creativetrax.com
I'm curious: how does the software selection compare to, for
example, mathbuntu (http://www.mathbuntu.org/
http://www.mathbuntu.org/), particularly
On 11/13/12 8:49 AM, Thierry wrote:
I built a live Debian Sage USB key wich is able to clone itself on
another key, indefinitely. I will make the prototype (and the source
code) available when i will be back home with a good internet
connection. Other features of the key are : personal data
I could hope for 4-5 that will use Sage in the long run, and 20 that
definitely see the point but will get stuck by lack of infrastructure
and expertise.
These sound like great numbers.
I think to break the barrier and make a true sage days really
productive, I think that you would
Hi,
thanks Nicolas for this exhaustive report. I would like to witness this
adventure it in a more pessimistic way, so that people willing to host
such a sage days know what kind of problems will appear, and which
workarounds are realistic.
Being free software is definitely not a sufficient
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 9:53:34 AM UTC-5, sage-goo...@lma.metelu.net
wrote:
Hi,
thanks Nicolas for this exhaustive report. I would like to witness this
adventure it in a more pessimistic way, so that people willing to host
such a sage days know what kind of problems will appear,
I know very little about all the technicalities of these reports but want
to echo that it is VERY valuable to have these real-life experiences - what
a great thread.
I recommend that several of these analyses be put on a wiki page linked to
The openssl and gfortran issues should be solved in sage-5.4, they are
no longer needed.
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Thierry, I find your message to be great in all parts, but I would like to
point out a thing...
2012/11/13 Thierry sage-googlesu...@lma.metelu.net
bios not able to boot on USB
Again, this is not a big problem. :P You can build a CD or even a floppy
disk with PLOP boot manager and even boot a
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 08:07:06PM -0800, Mike Zabrocki wrote:
Wow! Nicolas fantastic report. That was a challenge to do.
Thanks :-)
I hope you managed a convert or two in Africa. My experience with
computer classes as part of a summer school (in Ghana, Kenya,
Tanzania and Madagascar) is
Hi Jan,
Thanks for all the information and all your work making Sage easier to
install! On the next similar occasion, we should also investigate
aims-desktop, either through DVD installs or by running a local Ubuntu
+ PPA mirror. There still is the problem that installing a dual boot
Wow! Nicolas fantastic report. That was a challenge to do. I hope
you managed a convert or two in Africa. My experience with computer
classes as part of a summer school (in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and
Madagascar) is similar except I never had a wifi network and most
of my students didn't have
Hi
I also work in Science in many countries in Africa [1]. My preferred single
solution is a standalone Ubuntu desktop (laptop) installation. As it dual
boots, it is minimally invasive. The procedure is simple. AIMS-desktop
currently only needs network for the install, and if it reaches network
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