Hi I have now used UCK to make a "Live CD" which has sagemath-upstream-binary from the PPA. It is also Ubuntu 12.04.1 with a dist-upgrade up to the latest versions, and a few other packages I like (it is debatable what can be included here). It is a 1.6G ISO which can be written to a USB stick. It is fairly trivial to add languages, developer tools, rstudio, texmaker, etc.
It can then be used to boot a system > choose "Try Ubuntu" or to try Sage in the live environment, or "Install Ubuntu" to have Sage available on the final system (next to Windows). It can install entirely without network. Also, if the user ever goes on a network, update manager can prompt him that updates are available, and a fairly robust system is in place for this. What interest is there in making this ISO available on the Sage sites? What interest is there in certain packages and or language packs being available on it (versus size constraints?). I'd suggest a large system for generic use, to not duplicate effort: texmaker, scipy, many python libraries, R, rstudio, sysadm tools, dev tools, sage, some graphics apps, and general utilities, including English, French, Arabic, Amharic, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Italian, Polish, German, Romanian, Finnish, Swedish language packs for boot and install time. I'm actually trying to make a different image, currently called AIMS-desktop, but more generically an ubuntu science desktop. This would include many more packages and languages, though currently the ISO limit is 4G that may in future be overridden, and even a 4G ISO is a very large final system -- e.g. Sage is ~400M deb but 1.6G installed. I'm happy to make a separate ISO with only sagemath from the PPA though. This science desktop could serve not only as a Sage ISO, but a generic install with other tools available. It can be done offline. It can be installed next to Windows on any laptop with, say, 20G free space and 2G RAM. We can make a 32bit and 64bit version. (My only concern is how to get the codecs on afterwards. But I can put an installer in place to add those. I think a laptop should be able to play MP3s and DVDs. But I could add install-restricted-extras, for example, which will require network. We can also pre-enable the medibuntu repistory so that installation is easy.) If you had a workshop, you could arrive with a bag of 4G USB memory sticks and teach people to install Ubuntu as well. This is a fairly trivial procedure now. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/install-desktop-long-term-support Regards, Jan On 21 November 2012 23:49, Nicolas M. Thiery <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr>wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:07:50AM -0800, tom d wrote: > > Thanks for running this, Nicolas, and providing the detailed report! > > Well, for the running all the kudos should really go to the > organizers. And all those who helped for the Sage sessions. All I had > to do was to teach Sage to *motivated* students (ok, and fight some > technical details); other than this it was vacations: lodging and food > was provided. And entertainment as well with my fellow's classes! > > Congrats on all your ongoing work in Kenya! If I was not already going > to be away from home for quite some time this Spring, I would have > jumped on the occasion to come help for the workshop. > > Cheers, > Nicolas > -- > Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net> > http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. > > > -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
