On May 5, 2009, at 10:43 AM, Chris Chiasson wrote:
> Does the Sage DVD (not the live cd) require admin privileges to run it
> on Windows? I suppose this boils down to whether or not the VMWare
> binary mentioned in the description is the installer for VMWare or if
> it is actually the executable needed to launch Sage.
>
> If it does run off of the DVD without admin privileges, I could start
> using it at work and populating the network drive with my calculations
> ("hey, whats this file?" "oh, use this!" ::passes sage dvd:: "muahaha"
> "what?" "nothing, enjoy Sage").
We don't actually distribute VMWare itself (their license doesn't
allow it without express permission), you have to go download that
from their site. Once you do that the Sage VMWare image is just like
a "document" to the vmware app (though I would imagine one would need
write permissions, so a read-only media wouldn't work).
The easiest way to casually share Sage with users is probably to
point them to an online Sage server. The DVD is primarily for people
who want to install Sage but the download is prohibitive (either a
slow network, or you're sitting there at a conference and handing off
a DVD is so much faster than saying "go to this website, look for
this link..."
- Robert
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