On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 19, 7:37 am, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote: >> Is VMWARE outdated >> and virtualbox recommended? > > There is no vmware image. The vmware instructions are just for > reference and they were used some time ago. > > But you do not need them at all. If you download the virtualbox image, > you have a zip file. Extract it and there is the readme once again - > then it makes more sense. > > The idea behind a virtual appliance, as it is used there, is to be > "open" and allow the same images to be used across different virtual > environment engines. But, I don't know if this is tested of if there > are any problems with that ... for now, this virtualbox image is our > top download and there are nearly no problem reports with that one. > Therefore, it has the best "quality".
I have a complaint :-) -- "sage -upgrade" doesn't work to upgrade to 4.2.1. When Cython/GCC is building some plot3d code in the Sage library, the stupid compiler included in Puppy Linux has an internal compiler error. I think today I'm going to try to make a new ubuntu 9.10-based virtual machine for 4.2.1, and try to make it small using the same techniques used by Puppy Linux (i.e., squashfs and unionfs). William -- 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
