On Nov 29, 11:10 pm, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2007, at 4:48 PM, mabshoff wrote:
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> > Ok, I started fleshing out the windows port page at
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> > http://wiki.sagemath.org/windows
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> > Please add content and/or comments, we need to get this going. A data
> > point: Maxima 5.13 was downloaded about 40,000 times for Windows since
> > the release in August while Linux downloads in that time frame are
> > less than 2,500. Maxima on Linux certainly has more distribution
> > channels like Linux distribution, but unless you live in Debian
> > unstable or some other very current distribution chances are you are
> > not running 5.13. Source downloads total about 4,000, so the binary
> > Windows download share is *huge* either way and we really need to get
> > on the Windows desktop.
Hi David,
> So, hypothetically speaking, if I wanted to help with windows
> development, what are my options for getting windows running on my
> macbook?
>
With bootcamp you can install Windows in a separate partition. VMWare
Fusion lets you virtualize it (there is a free VMWare player, not sure
if it exists for Windows), Parallels is quite nice also, but also
costs some money. You need a windows license to install Windows
itself.
Another option is to use telnet and/or ssh to log into a Windows box
remotely. There are also various other protocols to access Windows on
a framebuffer level. It might be a good idea in the long term to set
up a box at U Washington to have a homogeneous development environment
and so on.
Another tidbit: rpw can potentially get students that work for credit
on the Windows port. Since I live close enough to his university and
provided somebody puts me up on a couch we could meet in Germany for a
couple days and hack hardcore on the Windows port to get things
started.
> david
Cheers,
Michael
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