On Fri, 10 Jul 2020, 12:03 Dima Pasechnik, <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > I have it now, but need to find a usb keyboard to bootstrap it, it seems. I would rather plug ethernet cable, and ssh into, but this seems to be unsupported. Also it is strange that the default OS is 32-bit, which looks like an extra hassle. > > (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/CAAWYfq2z0PdNx%3D8D13YAtPf5Za8x50YUFs5idu10c8LgvzVAkA%40mail.gmail.com.
