On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:57:11 -0800, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> 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.
I do not think laptops are suitable for creating a SAGE testing network.
It is very desirable that the machines in the testing network are
(1) always on,
(2) always physically available
Laptops are oftened "checked out" for weekends, and honestly do not do
well being left on all the time running hard. Also, they are *much* more
expensive for the same stats (memory, processor, etc), since, e.g., they
have displays (which we don't need -- a kvm would be fine).
Also, laptop hardware options are fairly constrained -- no itanium, no G5,
etc.
> Also, I've heard rumors that vista does not play nice
> with dual boots.
Dual booting in all contexts sucks. I've done that enough in my life
to know I don't ever want to if it can be avoided.
> Also, William used the word "dedicated". Will a big machine
> running n OSs via VMware provide an accurate picture of timings
> and performance issues?
No. But timing and performance are primarily hardware issues
not flavor-of-linux issues. Vmware would *only* be used to
provide access to a range of Linux disributions for build testing
(and this could already be set up on sage.math). For performance
testing VMware wouldn't be used.
Thanks for all your comments!
William
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