Given that the virtual appliance file formats seem to be somewhat standardized so that different virtual machine running software can export-import virtual appliances, the most hassle free solution for writing scientific papers that use Sage might be the
http://files.sagemath.org/win/index.html I would also like to point out that although as of 2016 the newest persistent memory type is the FRAM http://archive.softf1.com/2015/electronics/2015_12_xx_downloaded_FRAM_Description_by_Texas_Instruments.pdf most computers in the past used Flash, which means that at some point the older computers that originate from the era, where those old Linux distributions were in use, stop working due to the bitrot of the Flash memory at their various components, BIOS, microcontrollers, etc. Newest hardware might not, probably does not, have the backwards compatibility to the old hardware. A stellar illustration of that is that the software of the various old computers can be run only in "computer simulators" like http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ http://www.mess.org/ http://www.emulator-zone.com/ http://www.hercules-390.eu/ http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ http://www.villehelin.com/wzonka-lad.html http://gxemul.sourceforge.net/ There's even one for the x86 PC: http://jpc.sourceforge.net/home_home.html (I could copy-paste more from my archive page at http://archive.softf1.com/lounge/links_2_other_archives/ ) That is to say, at some point using a virtual machine IS YOUR ONLY OPTION, because the Flash memory of the old hardware bitrots away or the old hardware fails by other means and the new hardware does not support all the legacy mess. Thank You for reading my comment. :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
