On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:17 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 10, 2012 12:50 AM, "Dima Pasechnik" <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, 10 January 2012 03:06:14 UTC+8, William wrote: > >> > >> > coLinux looks promising. What does stop one from putting Sage on it > >> > presently? > >> > > >> > Dima > >> > >> Nothing. I've done it before several times. I was hoping with my > >> email to encourage you (meaning anybody reading this!) to try it. > > > > > > on a 64-bit Windows 7 I have, I cannot install coLinux: > > it aborts with a message saying it cannot run on a 64-bit system. > > (and this is also according to Q27 in http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ) > > Thanks, that is very useful to know, as 64-bit is finally becoming common > for Windows, I think. > I'm pretty sure that most computers sold to the "general public" today will have 64 bit Windows installed, and this has probably been true for a few years. (Just browse the Best Buy website and you will see that most standard laptops have at least 4 gigs of ram and come with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.) I suspect that new computers will probably only have 32 bit Windows installed either because they are cheap netbooks which come with Windows 7 starter or because someone has specifically requested something 32 bit for legacy compatibility reasons. I've been puzzled for a while about why Ubuntu encourages the 32 bit version as the recommended download. There used to be some problems with flash on 64 bits, but I think those problems are pretty much taken care of now, and I haven't come across any other software that I want to run that has problems with 64 bit linux. (Not that I really _want_ to run flash.) So I think that there should be a 64 bit version, and we should encourage anyone who can use a 64 bit version to use the 64 bit version, and we should look forward to the day, possibly only a few years away, when Sage can drop support for 32 bit operating systems. (Though maybe this day is more than a few years away, since ARM is lagging behind in adopting 64 bit, and more and more people may be interested in running Sage on ARM as time goes on.) -- 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
