On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Dr. David Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > >>>> Cheers, >>>> Simon >>> Unix is tricky, as Solaris works, on some machines, but is not fully >>> supported. (To be precise about this, one needs a definition of 'support'). >> >> Sage works on OS X, and OS X has been officially certified to be "UNIX". > > There is a separate column for OS X, so I assume the 'Unix' bit means > some unix other than OS X -i.e. Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, tru64, SCO, etc. > I've not looked around to find out exactly what is meant there I must > admit.
I think they must have been referring to one of these UNIX boxes that were in the hallway at the Sage Days 16 conference in Barcelona: http://wstein.org/pics/new/20090627-barcelona_sage_days16/.html/IMG_2796.html Unfortunately, we couldn't get Sage to run on it... William > >> http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/08/mac-os-x-leopard-receives-unix-03-certification.ars >> >>> I think on Wikipedia, the 'ports' sections indicates if it runs >>> natively, so Windows should remain a 'no'. There is no harm though it >>> adding a footnote and a link to some details about using VMware. >> >> Sounds good. >> >> William > > > > > > > -- 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 sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
