On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:01 PM Jaap Spies <jaapsp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In a previous post I wrote: > > \begin quote > Saying Raspberry Pi is saying education. There are zillion Raspberry Pi's out > there. > Almost all of them are running Raspbian, now called Raspberry Pi OS. > On every raspbian system there is an implementation of Mathematica. > Wolfram was clever when he decided to make Matematica available to the > people of Raspberries. > > I did some experimentation out of an old book Mathematica Second Edition. > You can really do some math on a Raspberry Pi 4. > [snipped] > > I think it is of major importance to have at least a binary for Raspberry Pi > OS! > > I'm old and have no time and no energy to pursue this to the end, but I plea > someone would take this serious. > > Jaap > > early adapter of sage > \end quote > > I wanted to start a discussion on the need to be present on the Raspberry Pi > platform. > But my intentions were buried under a lot of technicalities. > > SAGE was intended to by an opensource alternative for the big M's, among them > Mathematica. > What we see on the rasbian distribution: > du: > 32000 Wolfram/WolframEngine/12.0/AddOns/Applications > 36244 Wolfram/WolframEngine/12.0/AddOns > 1097480 Wolfram/WolframEngine/12.0 > 1097484 Wolfram/WolframEngine > 1101392 Wolfram/ > root@rasp4g:/opt# > > You see Wolfram was very clever in getting Mathematica in raspbian: 1.1 GB of > disk space > > We will never get that space in the official distro, but I plea to make > Sagemath > more available and known on the Raspberry Pi platform. > > There are a lot of computer labs in schools and colleges all running rasbian. > And users easily link Math and Mathematics to Mathematica. > Try Google Search: math Raspberry Pi of raspberry math > and you will be overwhelmed by Wolfram's Mathematica > > Do a Google Search: raspberry pi sagemath > and you see some pages from the year 2013 and a page of my website. > > The only thing we can do is to try getting Sagemath more visible. > In documentation, on the website and make a binary available.
I'm getting the latest Rasberry Pi with 8GB of RAM, we'll see how far it will do. > (William are you here?) > > Jaap Spies > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/36e28475-07f7-4938-aaed-410526534b18o%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq3%2Byaga_CiQmOjKZkO%2BdTFPRvVOx%3Dy9um1ypc3ChC9WuQ%40mail.gmail.com.
