I don't know if you intend on creating Arch images, but if you do I'd be happy to set them up as I run Arch as my primary OS.
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:43 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Dr David Kirkby <drkir...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On Nov 3, 1:48 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have a new faster laptop with a lot more RAM (8GB, woot), so it's > >> suddenly become much easier for me to install Linux into VirtualBox's > >> in my spare time in the background. So I'm going to be adding > >> VirtualBox images to boxen for the following OS's: > >> > >> CentOS-5.5-i386 > >> CentOS-5.5-x86_64 > >> Fedora-13-i686 > >> Fedora-13-x86_64 > >> debian-506-amd64 > >> debian-506-i386 > >> ubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64 > >> ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386 > >> > >> I do not want to spend much time configuring and maintaining them > >> myself though! Does anybody want to help? > >> Basically, I would turn the machine on, and give you an account with > >> sudo permissions, and hope you can add build tools, add the machine to > >> Mitesh's buildbot. What else is critical to do? > >> > >> I'll then turn off the existing very old versions of the above OS's, > >> which are currently being served on boxen. > >> > >> -- William > > > > William, > > > > You are probably not aware of it, but Fedora 14 was released > > yesterday! > > Oh man! I'm downloading the new fedora 14 CD's, and will delete my > fedora 13 vm's. Many thanks for the heads up! > > > The buildbot uses eno, flavius, lena, sextus and taurus, which are all > > running 64-bit Fedora 13. So I don't think we need another 64-bit > > Fedora 13 machine. > > > > It seems to me, looking at > > > > 1) README.txt, which lists our claimed "supported" sysstems (Debian, > > Ubuntu, CentOS (=Red Hat) Fedora, openSUSE, Mandriva, Arch) > > > > 2) http://wiki.sagemath.org/SupportedPlatforms#Linux - which lists > > what we test > > > > the most needed distributions are probably > > > > * Arch - since we don't have any > > * CentOS (which you intend adding) > > * Debian (which you intend adding) > > * openSUSE (since our version is old) > > * Mandriva - since we don't have any. > > > > Looking at > > > > http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity > > > > the various distributions in order of popularity are: > > > > 1) Ubunta > > 2) Fedora > > 3) Mint (based on Debian and Ubunta) > > 4) openSUSE > > 5) Debian > > 6) Sabayon (based on Gentoo) > > 7) Arch > > 8) Puppy > > 9) PCLinuxOS > > 10) Lubuntu (based on Debian and Ubunta) > > 11) Mandriva > > 12) Ultimate (based on Debian and Ubunta) > > 13) Slackware > > 14) CentOS > > 15) Tiny Core > > Thanks. > > > > > Dave > > > > -- > > 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<sage-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > > > > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > -- > 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<sage-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- 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
