On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:43 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 30, 1:59 am, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Nov 30, 12:38 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > 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. >> >> For me, this sounds good and seems to be a better solution than the >> vmware image. One big point is accessing sage notebook files, i hope >> that's easier.
Yes, that could be made much easier. The $HOME/.sage directory could instead by in Program Files of My Documents, and all normal Windows files would be accessible to Sage directly. >> There should also be a dedicated start button in the andLinux menu and >> perhaps even a regular start menu entry (if it is possible to start >> something inside andlinux from the outside).Then, packaging this as an >> "MSI" package would be very attractive, too. > > Yep, that would be nice. Yes, I think it would be possible to make it a start menu entry, at least for somebody who knows about how to do that sort of thing in Windows. > >> > Note, I don't think you can do any of this on a 64-bit windows box. >> >> Im not so familiar with all the windows details, but isn't it possible >> to modify the startup conditions for programs? "run as" or something. >> Or has this no effect for 32 vs. 64? > > I think the issue here is that with a 64 bit kernel you need 100% 64 > kit drivers and since coLinux provides drivers that are (were?) 32 > bits only it won't work. RunAs has nothing to do with that. > >> harald > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
