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[Axiom-developer] Re: Request for help from Windows + Linux users.


From: Eugene Surowitz
Subject: [Axiom-developer] Re: Request for help from Windows + Linux users.
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:38:24 -0400
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Depends on the kind of Mac you are talking about.

A Mac that is Intel based can run Windows and Apple's  OS/X
in various ways and hot swap between them.

A PowerPC Mac (mine) doesn't have a native Axiom mostly
because of developer resources as well as the switch to the Intel processor.
I have started working my way toward getting GCL native and then
trying to determine what the Axiom build runs into.

For the desperate, you could probably get away with running
MS's VirtualPC product on the Powerbook; it emulates the Intel
instruction set and runs Windows. Speed had better not be your concern.
The product may have been pulled but mine still updates Windows.

I think this get the current state of things about right.


Demitri Muna wrote:
Hi Gene,

Thanks for the link - I've never come across that before. It doesn't seem to 
run on a Mac though...

Demitri

On Apr 15, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Eugene Surowitz wrote:

There is another alternative:

I use the AXIOM the free and open source algebraic system that
can be run on a Linux that operates as an application on windows;
no partitioning or dual boot necessary.

See the section "Axiom on Windows" lower down on this page:
http://axiom.axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/download.html

Cheers, Gene

Demitri Muna wrote:
Hi Eugene,
Thanks for the information. Right now (partly based on the feedback) I'm 
considering requiring Windows users use Linux, either through an installation 
on a flash drive, a virtual machine, or partitioning their drive.
Cheers,
Demitri
On Apr 14, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Eugene Surowitz wrote:
I regularly use the "cygwin" on MS Windows;
it provides a unix-like environment with many packages of tools.

I think "mingw" does the same, but I currently don't use it.

Cheers, Eugene Surowitz


Demitri Muna wrote:
Hi,
As I announced last week, I'm running a scientific programming workshop in June 
(deadline to apply is tomorrow!). The participants will be bringing their own 
laptops running OS X, Linux, and Windows.
There are several tools that I want to introduce, but for some things I am 
really only familiar with OS X (and to a lesser degree, Linux). I'd like to see 
if there is anyone who works regularly on Linux or Windows who can assist me in 
finding the right tools on those platforms. An example of the tools/tasks I 
want to illustrate:
- A free IDE (python/C++/etc.).
- SVN gui (or at all on Win)
- Running gcc (on Win)
- Code profiling / debugging
- SQLite (Win - command line interface?)
- Running fuse
- etc.
While I have some ideas of what is available (e.g. Eclispe), I don't really 
know how to use these tools on non-Mac platforms and would like someone who is 
familiar with them and uses them regularly.
Of course, a valid question is whether one should bother with Windows in 
scientific research, so if anyone actually does day to day data analysis in 
Windows I'd be curious to hear from you even if you don't have the time to help.
Cheers,
Demitri
_________________________________________
Demitri Muna
Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
New York University
4 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
(212) 992-7453
_________________________________________
Demitri Muna
Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
New York University
4 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
(212) 992-7453


_________________________________________
Demitri Muna

Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
New York University
4 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003

(212) 992-7453








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