[sage-support] outdated version of Sage in Ubuntu 9.04

Dear All, It is a fact that for a number of scientific packages, Ubuntu does offer fairly outdated packages: 1. Current Sage package: 3.4.1 and the version offered by Ubuntu 9.04 is Sage 3.0.5. 2. Current Maxima package: 5.18. and the version offered by Ubuntu 9.04 is Maxima 5.13. 3. Current Texliv

[sage-support] running maxima within sage and parallel computing

Dear All, I am not a software programmer. It is possible that this question is not rightly phrased. I use Maxima on a Ubuntu 9.04 i386 machine for symbolic computation tasks that arise in macroeconomics. I am given to understand that Maxima cannot exploit parallel computing at present while Sage ca