Mike Hansen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> FWIW, a Google on Cywin brings up 4.8 million hits. On VirtualBox 4.2 million >> hits. Considering Cywin was released in 1995 and VirtualBox in 2007, it would >> suggest to me its a more popular tool today. > > VirtualBox has all the drawbacks of a virtual machine. Some of the > main ones being that it is slow to start up, has large disk and memory > usage, and has relatively poor integration with the host operating > system's filesystem by default. As William said, a Cygwin version of > Sage would be far closer to a "native" application than using it > through VirtualBox.
Has andlinux (http://www.andlinux.org/) been relegated to the "been there, tried that, didn't work very well" pile? It seems that someone tried it a while ago, but it didn't work very well then. I don't know how long ago that was. Thanks, Jason -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
