On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 8:20:21 AM UTC, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > Dear William, > > Le jeudi 16 février 2017 08:45:36 UTC+1, William a écrit : >> >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:26 PM, Emmanuel Charpentier >> <emanuel.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Dear list, >> >[...] >> > The trade-offs are not obvious. No solution dominates the other. But >> both >> > solutions explored here (WSL vs Cygwin) seem to dominate the VM >> solution. >> >> Did you try actually using a VM on this computer? > > > Huh ? I have "only" 4 GB of RAM, to share (to *dedicate*) to boith > systems. Even if Windows may run on 2 GB RAM, I doubt that > VM+Linux+Sage+whatever is needed to serve Jupyter would run on 2 GB RAM. > Crawl, maybe.. >
I think the total of 4GB for this config should be more than enough. But, if I were you, I'd just get the right Linux running on your machine natively (perhaps something like https://www.linuxliteos.com/ or gentoo) > > Using the "old" notebook might be better here (the browser could run on > the Windows side. But the main problem is the *dedication* (*fixed* > allocation) of resources to each system. > > Hell, I don't even know how many execution threads my CPU has... > > Less important, but still a hurdle : configuring network-like > communications between the two machines. I know how to do this from Liux, > but I'm nit so at ease in Windows (I don't even know if Windows Home will > let me create the necessary pseudo-adapter, aka tun device in Linux > parlance...). > > More generally : I'm more or less competent on Linux, but hopeless in > Windows. I may find my way around it, but that's not a pretty sight... My > attempt is a temporary measure while waiting the availability of the > necessary hardware support in Linux : as soon as this is available, I'll > probably kiss Windows goodbye. > > >> My experience with >> Windows to date has been that for a technically sophisticated user who >> cares about performance (like you), > > > I'm more concerned by competence than by performance : for example, I'm > not concerned by a few seconds more for a LaTeX compilation (a few minutes > more would be another problem...) ; not having emacs or an useful > (synctex-enabled) PDF viewer would be more of a concern, possibly a > deal-breaker. > > >> using VirtualBox is vastly >> superior to WSL or Cygwin... >> >> William >> > > Thanks for your advice. I'll consider it. > > -- > Emmanuel Charpentier > > >> >> > >> > HTH, >> > >> > - >> > Emmanuel Charpentier >> > >> > -- >> > 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+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. >> > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> William (http://wstein.org) >> > -- 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.
