William, In spite of missing the readme, installation is very easy. If you already have VirtualBox installed just use File/Import Applicance et voila! Sage-in-five-minutes. Puppy linux looks nice but maybe is just a little daunting to the anyone who hasn't previously used linux on a virtual machine under Windows. Of course you can ignore all that and just access Sage notebook by a local ip address from your windows desktop.
Nice. I'll play some more, but right now I like it. It's reasonably fast even on a Windows XP machine with limited ram ( 1 Gbyte). Thanks Bill Page. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:32 PM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Despite sage_vmware-*.zip being bar far the most popular Sage > download, we will not be distributing Sage as a vmware image anymore. > Over the weekend I created a Sage distribution aimed at Windows users > based on "puppy Linux" using Virtual Box: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/binaries/sage_vbox-4.1.2.zip > > It's a 659MB download. However, once you download and extract the > zip, the resulting files still only use 659MB. If you then import the > virtual machine into VirtualBox (follow the included readme), you'll > use a total of just over 700MB disk space. This is *much* better than > the 3.5GB used by the extracted sage-vmware-*.zip! Interestingly, > it's also much better than the 1.5GB used by an extracted Sage install > on Linux or OS X. > > What I need very much is for some people to test sage_vbox-4.1.2.zip. > Please test and report back. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
