> > I have a really dumb question. Do you need a VM player (e.g., > > VirtualBox, VMWare) to use this? Or is that included somehow? Maybe > > this is obviously "yes" but I just didn't see it mentioned earlier in > > the thread, sorry if it's noise. > > > - kcrisman
I found Virtualbox a tad easier to use than Vmware. Virtualbox is 65 MB download (for Linux). Normally you download binaries for a personal copy of the player which you are free to use, but redistribution is not permitted. However there is the Open Source Edition. I have never tried to compile this and I don't know how it compares performance wise. But If there would be a reasonable working windows build of this OSE version I see the possibiliy to package VirtualBoxOSE + Sage VM, maybe a little installer GUI and then we would have our sage for windows. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ In Linux there is the kvm qemu option (virtualisation support is included in the kernel via kvm). But we want to get those windows users so skip that option. > Regarding size, a new "sage -strip" option in Sage is relevant: > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10801 Praise for implementing "make micro-relase" - just what I needed. btw, I read the comment on that track ticket >It seems like the LiveCD folks have also worked on stuff like this... made me smile, wish there would be "folks" -- 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
