thanks for feedback - I am glad you find it useful and I share your opinion about the "loosing steam" problem of many projects. Every project has its specific strengths and weaknesses - I summed up why I think Sage is promising and worth the time invested:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=63810
About micro emacs:
yep this is a bug with mg: it can be fixed with change the file
/usr/share/applications/mg-p.desktop, exec mg should be
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exec xterm -e mg
I try to fix this in the next release (maybe Februar)
I included the small micro emacs, because it has the basic emacs feeling without the size. And I put an "emacs" symlink in /usr/bin to mg for those firsttimers who get lost at the commandline and need an emacs like editor.
which emacs?
Which emacs package did you use? I just tried the package which I offer on the SageliveCD homepage for download.
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/e ... emacs.html
it worked flawless, including menu entry and the symlink to mg was overwritten. I currently work in my small server version of Sage Live, but it should be the same for 511-47.
terminal infernal
You are probably right that an advanced terminal would be better. However for just changing colors there is the option to call urxvt with the -bg and fg parameters (e.g. right click on Console icon on desktop, edit item, Arguments to pass -bg black -fg white.), Maybe a good solution would be to offer an additional terminal as extra package for download - what do you think?
Open Sci distros
I had a look on Quantian and Poseidon Linux.
Both are valuable projects, although the last Quantian release is from 2006.
I think specific advantages of puppy is that it is small and easy to install on a wide variety of platforms. In combination with Sage it offers a comprehensive system with a unified interface AND: it may act as a server, so the whole power is accessible over the net to others.
Let me stress that I am very happy about any contributions and feedback. In fact I feel that documentation and published applications are more important than compiling over and over.
If you have any documentation or examples just post them . It is also possible to publish Sage notebooks on one of the public servers, so we could just insert links here. e.g. Published Worksheets on main Sage Server of University of Washington
Some Examples from Sage dev Jason Grout from Drake Univ.
A German Sage server
cheers
emil