Oh well good news, this clarification and redirection of "sage on windows" was overdue ...
I agree with Volker Braun, that a Virtual Box based solution should have priority. A viable solution - especially since Virtual Box is GPLed now - is in short term reach. My last shot on it was the combined VirtualBox / Sage installer http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/emil/doc/html/en/Windows_Installer.html this image has still some shortcommings compared to Mr. Steins specifications. Most notably mouse integration (i.e. VB Guest additions) and autostart of the browser (minor issue). a proper usage of the Virtual Box commandline tools would even give some additional possibilites (e.g. running in headless mode of the VM and autostart the windows browser). All in all I think if there would be a dedicated sage days, with some windows users/sysadmins/programmers and some sage folks it would be enough to produce a user friendly VM which meets or even exceeds Mr. Steins specifications. The Limit of 600 MB for the image will be hard to reach with a full sized Sage. Sage has grown quite a bit in size over the last 2 years. But it is possible. coLinux is nice, but more complicated to install - You also need the X server. In my tests coLinux was also slower than the Virtual Machine - read about it here (There is also a precompiled Sage disk image for "andLinux") http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/emil/doc/SageWin/Sage_on_andLinux.html I am also still proud of the Sage Live CD, but it is no substitute for a more integrated solution - The dual boot exe installer will never win over a majority of users, it's more a geek thing. Good Luck! emil -- 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
