[sage-support] Sage for Windows, when?

2017-04-24 Thread Jim Mooney
Sage is so painfully slow on win 8.1 since it's run in a virtualbox, I had to fall back to Maxima (which is fine for now, but I'll want Sage eventually). I don't want to partition and dual-boot linux, and running linux from a flash drive only allows a tiny amount of storage for Sage, even with

Re: [sage-support] Sage for Windows, when?

2017-04-24 Thread Vincent Delecroix
Dear Jim, For windows status, have a look at [1]. Concerning data storage with flash drive, the live USB key [2] gives you access to your hard drive. So I don't understand your limitation problem. Vincent [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/t2s8cUdf4ZQ [2] https://sagedebi

[sage-support] Re: Sage for Windows, when?

2017-04-24 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 10:54:31 AM UTC+1, Jim Mooney wrote: > > Sage is so painfully slow on win 8.1 since it's run in a virtualbox, I had > to fall back to Maxima (which is fine for now, but I'll want Sage > eventually). I don't want to partition and dual-boot linux, and running > linux

[sage-support] Re: Sage for Windows, when?

2017-04-24 Thread slelievre
Dear Jim, have you tried using the SageMath installer for Windows that Erik Bray has produced, funded by OpenDreamKit? It is more lightweight than the virtual machine solution, and integrates better with the Windows environment. It is still in alpha stage but there are more and more reports of i

Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage for Windows, when?

2017-04-24 Thread Henri Girard
Wonderfull, I just installed it and tried sagenb. That's really a great day ! Le 24/04/2017 à 15:11, slelievre a écrit : Dear Jim, have you tried using the SageMath installer for Windows that Erik Bray has produced, funded by OpenDreamKit? It is more lightweight than the virtual machine sol