I'd like to get input on how people has set up sage in academic environments. To be more concrete, let me tell my ideas on how to set up sage in my department, and what the problems are..
Currently, we have labs for exclusive use of the mathematics department. Unfortunately, our lab computers all run Windows (XP, most of them, with a few Vistas). We don't have a file server or application server, though: students have a login they have to use to access campus computers, but they don't have centralized storage space (yes, they save their work in USB drivers). So here are the possibilities I am thinking about (please don't be afraid to say that any of them are just plain stupid...) 1. Run Sage under VMWare player in each machine. Pros: easy to set up. Cons: have buy license for VMWare software. This could be worked out through an internal grant, but I still see the problem that, to keep student's work separate, each one would have to have his/her own copy of the virtual machine. And then, they would have to transfer their work using a USB drive anyway. 2. Boot sage from the CDROM, have students store their work in USB drive. Pros: can do it without telling about it to admins. Cons: don't know if they will be happy. 3. Set up a Sage Notebook server. Pros: easy for students to use, access their work from anywhere in the world. Cons: have no idea how to do it. (I can get help setting up a web server, that is not the problem, the question is how to set up Sage and the notebook server. The web server, and Sage, would be running in a Ubuntu server). The only other option I see would be to create user accounts for students in the server that runs Ubuntu. I really don't want to think about that, however. I never did sysadmin, and don't really want to get into it. Felipe Martins --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
