I used the Sage package for VirtualBox off of the main site. It apparently runs on Xfce 4 Desktop Environment, version 4.6.1
On Aug 9, 1:35 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 08/ 9/10 08:12 PM, Istarion wrote: > > > I recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop, and started running Sage > > from there. Previously, I had used VirtualBox running in Windows Vista > > to run Sage. However, I upon running one of my programs, I noticed > > that the program had run about 5 times faster in VirtualBox than it > > was currently doing so in Ubuntu. Is this normal, or is there > > something weird going on? > > > System Specifications: > > Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5750 @ 2.00GHz > > Memory 3090MB > > That sounds very odd I must say. VirtualBox has significant overhead, so I > would > expect things to be slower in VirtualBox than on a dual boot system. > > What operating system were you using inside virtual box where the system > worked > fast? > > > > > Operating Systems: > > It is a dualboot system, running Windows Vista Home Edition 64-bit, > > and Ubuntu 64-bit. > > > The specs for Ubuntu are as follows: > > Kernel Linux 2.6.32-24-generic (x86_64) > > Distribution Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS > > Desktop Environment GNOME 2.30.0 > > Let me know what other information I should provide. Thanks! -- 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
