(This topic serves two purposes. At first it serves as an encouragement for
students to go for Free Software solutions. Unexpectedly good results can
happen by doing that. The second purpose is for me to become aware of things
I haven't thought myself.)
Alright, I have finished my bachelor's thesis. Very surprisingly my (sucky)
thesis about Sage as a replacement for Matlab in higher education rose
interest in the teachers on my school. Now my job is to install and configure
Sage server for my school, and educate Mathematics teachers to use Sage. It
is greatly awesome beyond words that those doctorates of mathematics and
physics are interested enough about Sage so that they are willing to spend
time watching me demonstrate Sage and talk about Sage. So, go for it people
with Free Software. You can never know what you can do with it.
Now to the next issue.
I need to install Sage server for my school. The options for OS are:
-Debian: Either stable or testing. The bad thing about stable is that it will
be soon replaced with current testing version and hence not supported so long
as current Ubuntu or Toutatis. The bad thing about testing version is that it
is testing version and possibly not so secure.
-Ubuntu: The very good thing about Ubuntu is that just a moment ago LTS
version of it was released. So in theory the same Ubuntu server could be used
next 5 years.
Trisquel: Toutatis is the only version of Trisquel to consider. The good
thing is that Toutatis is basicly current Ubuntu LTS, so it should be stable
and secure and supported for a long time. However, Toutatis is not ready yet,
and even though there might be no differences between packages on the server
installation without X-server between Toutatis and ubuntu LTS, is it too
risky to make the server of Toutatis at this point? Is there plans to support
Toutatis for the same time as curernt Ubuntu LTS is to be supported?
What would you chose :)
