Hi Offray, Thanks for the info on taking this approach with students - it sounds very workable.
I'll certainly take a look at your image, and I think joining forces makes a lot of sense. I certainly have a good idea of what I'd like to include. I'm relatively new to VirtualBox and most of my experience is with Kubuntu and Debian, but it would be good to expand my horizons. I'll be back in touch off-list with some thoughts after I look at your current version. Thanks, Rob On Jun 5, 1:03 pm, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <offray.l...@javeriana.edu.co> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Rob Beezer wrote: > >> The idea was to provide the students with a easy to use personal > >> scientific computing environment to carry on. > > > I will likely run a seminar this fall for my students to introduce > > them to Sage, TeX, Beamer and friends (and maybe some Linux, plus some > > Python). So I was contemplating making a VirtualBox image with Ubuntu > > and the necessary other bits all ready to go. > > > How has Virtual Box worked for you as a vehicle to get a pre-built > > environment into your student's hands? > > It worked almost fine, provided that students have enough RAM and hard > disk for running the virtualized image (5.2 Gb for uncompressed image > and more that 1Gb of Ram) and they have a introductory session about > installation and common uses. Making this virtual image was thing of > just two day with Arch Linux (I previously worked with Debian Derivates > but Arch was quicker in almost every aspect). I'm planning to make some > changes in the Virtual Image, so why not working together towards a > Virtual Box student friendly, multilanguage and Sage powered image to > go? You can give my virtual image a try and say me what you need to make > it fit for your students too. Its still buggy, but I provided support to > my students with common issues, the most annoying is automagical > keyboard layout switch. > > Cheers, > > Offray --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
