Hi On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:05:05PM -0800, cool-RR wrote: > > As SAGE is unix based, the VMware is necessary to run on a windows > > platform. Consider a user friendly Linux distribution like Ubuntu > > or whatever is common where you work/study, as you can then run > > SAGE natively. > > I don't understand. Imagine a non-computer-savvy scientist who uses > Windows and wants to use Sage. I imagine this is a pretty big > percentage of scientists. Are you telling him, "To use Sage you must > operate a VM, or switch operating system"?
Those options are not so bad! Especially the VM is quick and non-invasive and easy. I'll retract the second Operating a VM is more trivial than operating SAGE. Especially virtualbox :) 1. Click http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.12/VirtualBox-3.0.12-54655-Win.exe The step one in the READMEs direct you to the virtualbox page with whatever versions are the latest, I linked directly above for your convenience. and install. Ask if you need to know about options. Then open the resulting Virtualbox VM. 2. Import the SAGE VM. Uhm, and now I need to direct some queries to the webmaster. ( Webmaster: can these be consolidated? http://www.sagemath.org/mirror/win/README.txt http://www.sagemath.org/mirror/win/README-vmware.txt Are they VMWARE versus Virtualbox?? Is VMWARE outdated and virtualbox recommended? Step 2: Where is the SAGE ovf file? Should one have downloaded it? I'm reading the README.txt on the web, and don't know how to find sage.ovf in the same folder. I even tried editing the url, and sage.ovf wasn't there. I have not followed these instructions, I'm a Linux-only user. ) > P.S. Can Mac users run Sage natively? Yes. http://www.sagemath.org/download-mac.html It is trivial. Click SAGE, or type sage in a terminal, and to use the GUI (as the first message says), type notebook(). Lastly, native porting is in progress for windows too! regards, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
