I think its still up for discussion what the best strategy of running Sage in VirtualBox is. I feel that textmode Sage server using the native browser as interface is the most natural way since there is no confusion about which web browser to use. The disadvantage is that we can't automatically open a browser from the sage process with a magic url, so the user has to log in manually. You don't need any GUI to install the sage combinat patches.
For developing Sage you should probably install Linux first. Still, if you have to use a VM for some reason then I think its better to export the sage directory via Samba than have a GUI editor run inside the VM. If you are happy with vi/emacs then you probably run Linux already... The VM is larger than before because it is not particularly tuned for the minimal number of packages. There is a certain trade-off between minimal size and making it easy to create the base linux install, and I don't see much point in spending time to save a little bit of hdd space. Adding latex/libpng/libjpg/cairo will make it even bigger, but again I think usability is more important than space savings. -- 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
