Also very interesting, I found this thread about SAGE, which is on of the most comprehensive math tools today. Obviously they tried to make SAGE work in Windows, by running a SAGE Puplet in a Virtual machine!
This quote is from William Stein, one of the prime creators of sage. A perfect reference for puppies math-capacities!Has anybody here tried "Puppy Linux"? I stumbled upon it yesterday,
and have become quite enamored of it. It is systematically optimized
for being "small" (e.g., using squashfs and unionfs very
systematically), and provides a full GUI. It's a lot like "Damn Small
Linux", but is twice as big (base system is 100MB instead of 50MB) and
much, much prettier. It's also somewhat easy to install a compiler
environment into (once you figure out how). I was able to build Sage
from source on it, no problem, since our binaries didn't work
...
I think the download link for the puplet is here.
This supports my believe that Puppy Linux is a powerful base to distribute complex software (hard to install for average user).
emil