[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Kudos on a fabulous system!

2007-05-16 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 16:07, William Stein wrote: Hi, Here is some fan mail from a new user of SAGE on Windows (via VMware) -- see below. I think we're going to have to make a hard choice about whether to continue to support Cygwin or just distribute SAGE on Windows via VMware, since it

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Kudos on a fabulous system!

2007-05-16 Thread mabshoff
On May 16, 4:35 pm, Martin Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2007 16:07, William Stein wrote: Hi, Here is some fan mail from a new user of SAGE on Windows (via VMware) -- see below. I think we're going to have to make a hard choice about whether to continue to

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Kudos on a fabulous system!

2007-05-16 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 10:07, William Stein wrote: Hi, Here is some fan mail from a new user of SAGE on Windows (via VMware) -- see below. I think we're going to have to make a hard choice about whether to continue to support Cygwin or just distribute SAGE on Windows via VMware, since it

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Kudos on a fabulous system!

2007-05-16 Thread Nick Alexander
Martin Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 16 May 2007 16:07, William Stein wrote: Hi, Here is some fan mail from a new user of SAGE on Windows (via VMware) -- see below. I think we're going to have to make a hard choice about whether to continue to support Cygwin or just

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Kudos on a fabulous system!

2007-05-16 Thread Michel
Besides VMware there might be other options such as Qemu or VirtualBox (if VMware becomes non-free-as-in-beer again). Michel On May 16, 6:50 pm, Nick Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 16 May 2007 16:07, William Stein wrote: Hi,

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Kudos on a fabulous system!

2007-05-16 Thread William Stein
On 5/16/07, Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides VMware there might be other options such as Qemu or VirtualBox (if VMware becomes non-free-as-in-beer again). I very much agree with this. In the rest of this discussion, let's view vmware to mean vmware or some other virtualization

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Kudos on a fabulous system!

2007-05-16 Thread Hamptonio
Absolutely. I've been thinking about this a fair amount lately as I would like to use sage in teaching undergrads (mostly multivariable calc, ODEs, and linear algebra). At first I was thinking of them installing it on their laptops, but most of them use Windows. Having a notebook server for a