Hi Dan (cc: sage-devel),
I would like you to try to make a distribution of Sage for Windows
that is based on AndLinux.
I just tried this out myself and it was remarkably smooth. See
http://picasaweb.google.com/wstein/SageAndLinux
for some screen shots. All I did was:
1. Download the minimal (130MB) AndLinux installer.
2. Install it.
3. Download
http://sagemath.org/bin/linux/32bit/sage-3.2-ubuntu32bit-intel-i686-Linux.tar.gz
to c:\ under windows.
4. Extract the tarball into andlinux by typing the following
tar zxf /root/windows/..stuff
You'll be left with only 80MB free in AndLinux. (type df -h to
confirm this)
5. Delete sage-3.2-ubuntu32bit-intel-i686-Linux/local/lib/sage-flags.txt
6. Run sage.
That's it. It works pretty well. The result of doing the above is to
modify a file in
C:\Program Files\andLinux\Drives
We could make a modified version of AndLinux and rebrand it say
SageLinux, which would
be the above but with Sage preinstalled, and maybe a slightly larger drive.
Please try this out and tell me what you think.
Note, I don't think you can do any of this on a 64-bit windows box.
However, you *can* do it from within windows on a virtual machine, so,
e.g., you could install 32-bit windows via Virtual PC, say, then do
1-6 above.
This would be a nice alternative to VMware for running sage, and might
have some advantages regarding easy of use and being free. It is also
more light weight.
This will probably be of no use whatever for Microsoft Research, since
AndLinux is GPLv3+ (though coLinux, on which AndLinux is based, is
GPLv2+). But there are a lot more windows users out there, and I
view them all as important.
-- William
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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