On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Dr David Kirkby <drkir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Nov 3, 1:48 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a new faster laptop with a lot more RAM (8GB, woot), so it's >> suddenly become much easier for me to install Linux into VirtualBox's >> in my spare time in the background. So I'm going to be adding >> VirtualBox images to boxen for the following OS's: >> >> CentOS-5.5-i386 >> CentOS-5.5-x86_64 >> Fedora-13-i686 >> Fedora-13-x86_64 >> debian-506-amd64 >> debian-506-i386 >> ubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64 >> ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386 >> >> I do not want to spend much time configuring and maintaining them >> myself though! Does anybody want to help? >> Basically, I would turn the machine on, and give you an account with >> sudo permissions, and hope you can add build tools, add the machine to >> Mitesh's buildbot. What else is critical to do? >> >> I'll then turn off the existing very old versions of the above OS's, >> which are currently being served on boxen. >> >> -- William > > William, > > You are probably not aware of it, but Fedora 14 was released > yesterday!
Oh man! I'm downloading the new fedora 14 CD's, and will delete my fedora 13 vm's. Many thanks for the heads up! > The buildbot uses eno, flavius, lena, sextus and taurus, which are all > running 64-bit Fedora 13. So I don't think we need another 64-bit > Fedora 13 machine. > > It seems to me, looking at > > 1) README.txt, which lists our claimed "supported" sysstems (Debian, > Ubuntu, CentOS (=Red Hat) Fedora, openSUSE, Mandriva, Arch) > > 2) http://wiki.sagemath.org/SupportedPlatforms#Linux - which lists > what we test > > the most needed distributions are probably > > * Arch - since we don't have any > * CentOS (which you intend adding) > * Debian (which you intend adding) > * openSUSE (since our version is old) > * Mandriva - since we don't have any. > > Looking at > > http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity > > the various distributions in order of popularity are: > > 1) Ubunta > 2) Fedora > 3) Mint (based on Debian and Ubunta) > 4) openSUSE > 5) Debian > 6) Sabayon (based on Gentoo) > 7) Arch > 8) Puppy > 9) PCLinuxOS > 10) Lubuntu (based on Debian and Ubunta) > 11) Mandriva > 12) Ultimate (based on Debian and Ubunta) > 13) Slackware > 14) CentOS > 15) Tiny Core Thanks. > > Dave > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
