I'm not sure about VMware. One advantage to laptops is that, because of the number of student developers in the UW area, they could be used as loaners as well. Also, I've heard rumors that vista does not play nice with dual boots. Also, William used the word "dedicated". Will a big machine running n OSs via VMware provide an accurate picture of timings and performance issues? Moreover, a bunch of laptops can be hooked into a LAN to do some testing of SAGE's distributed computing capabilites. Anyway, it's just an idea for discussion.
Really, I would like to have SAGE tested on a debian stable machine (as opposed to ubuntu or any other debian-based system). I know the package management system is the same but I believe the packages are a bit different in some cases. (I used to have a debian laptop and am much happier that it is now ubuntu.) In particular, I remember having trouble with java. I'm not a java fan and not an computer literate as you all are so maybe my experiences were'nt typical. Nonetheless, I believe a 100% debian stable machine is a worthy test machine for SAGE, especially a 64 bit one. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Yi Qiang wrote: > On 12/12/06, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> IMHO, it is also important to test specific flavors of linux >> (eg, debian, redhat, freeBSD) and windows types (windows XP, >> vista). Laptops could probably be used for this. >> >> > Wouldn't something like VMWare Server on a reasonably powerful machine > do exactly that? There are also other solutions such as OpenVZ and > Xen. I saw a demo of Virtuozzo by one of the employees and it looked > very cool. I think we should leverage the power and in this > particular case, space efficiency of virtualization as much as > possible :) I think that the OSX is the only exception, but I see a > Mac Pro is already on the list. > > Yi > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
