On Oct 9, 8:24 pm, Jason Grout <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/9/10 9:53 AM, Chris Seberino wrote: > > > What's easiest way to get Sage running on Windows for non-techie > > students? > > > They'll be lost if the instructions are complicated. > > > Possible to wrap a VMWare + Ubuntu + Sage blob into one big Windows > > exe file that requires no set up? > > Since we can't redistribute VMWare, they'll have to download and install > VMWare themselves. However, once that is done, it should be simply a > matter of downloading the Sage VMWare image [1] and double-clicking on it.
Yeah, it's still really annoying to get the VMWare itself, though, and requires giving out semi-personal information, which is perhaps not what one would want to get students interested in mathematical software... Anyone know what the latest status of the Cygwin port is? That is to say, there exists something that works (see http://groups.google.com/group/sage-windows/browse_thread/thread/ca02b59099bda7dc) but apparently it's not yet ready/possible to distribute... - kcrisman -- 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-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
