KNOPPIX/Math icms2006---developer's meeting
About KNOPPIX/Math icms2006---developer's meeting
KNOPPIX/Math is a project to archive free mathematical software and
free mathematical documents and offer them on KNOPPIX.
It provides a desktop for mathematicians that can be
set up easily and quickly.
This DVD is the latest release in the KNOPPIX/Math CD/DVD series
edited for the 2nd International Congress of Mathematical Software,
icms2006---developer's meeting.
How to run the live system (Windows machine or PC/AT compatibles)
This DVD contains a lot of documents and packages
of mathematical software systems.
Once you run the live system,
you can experience a wonderful world of mathematical software
systems without needing to make any installations yourself.
This is a bootable DVD. If you can boot from the DVD,
then please reboot. The live system will be ready.
If your machine is not bootable, or has very special hardware devices which
KNOPPIX cannot drive,
we recommend you download the
VMware player .
Once you have installed the VMware player,
you can start our live system from this DVD or
from our image file (faster) for VMware player.
The preinstalled image file is included in this DVD or is provided
either in a different DVD or from
http://www.math.kobe-u.ac.jp/vmkm
Note that when you install the VMware player, the Norton internet security
or equivalent software systems should be turned off.
How to run the live system (IntelMac)
This DVD contains a lot of documents and packages
of mathematical software systems.
Once you run the live system,
you can experience a wonderful world of mathematical software
systems without needing to make any installations yourself.
In order to run the live system, we recommend to use
the PC emulator
"Parallels desktop for Mac"
Note that you need to set the "energy save" to "better performance"
in the "system preferences". Otherwise, the parallel virtual machine
will not return after being in sleep mode.
Introduction
KNOPPIX/math is a project to archive free mathematical software and
free mathematical documents and offer them on KNOPPIX.
It provides a desktop for mathematicians that can be
set up easily and quickly.
Our system includes tex, openoffice, firefox, emacs,
Kile, a KDE based GUI TEX editor, WhizzyTEX
and Active-DVI, a pair of WYSIWYG utilities for TEX documents,
and GNU TeXmacs, an office suite for TeX writing.
The DVD also includes many additional
FREE mathematical software systems or libraries with documents,
such as BLAS, coq, Dynagraph,
GAP, Geomview, ginac, gmp, Gnuplot, Hyplane, jtem, Kali, Kan, KSEG, LAPACK, Macaulay2,
Maxima, NZMATH, Octave, OpenXM, PARI/GP, PHCpack,
polymake, Qhull, R, SAGE, Singular, SnapPea,
surf, Surface Evolver, synaps, Teruaki, XaoS, and Yorick, ...
Our DVD is also a step toward the challenge for
creating "desktop teleportation".
For more details, please visit our booth.
FAQ (frequently asked questions)
- Q. Where can I find documents of mathematical software systems.
A. Open the folder "icms2006" on the desktop of the live system
and open @StartHere.html.
The folder "icms2006" on the DVD also contains some documents,
but the number of documents are less than that on the live system.
- Q. After the power is turned off, I lose all documents which I wrote.
A. If you boot from the DVD, all documents are stored in the RAM.
Then, you will lose all your data after the power is turned off.
In order to save data permanently, you need to copy them to
a USB memory or to the hard disk. Please visit the knoppix cite for more details.
If you boot from the VMware image in the VMware player,
all documents which you wrote will be stored permanently in your harddisk.
- Q. How do I copy documents to other machines?
A. There are numerous ways (1) sending documents as an attachement
of a web mail (2) using the "scp" command (3) using samba (4) using
a remote mount with ssh, ...
- Q. Can I boot this DVD on my Mac?
A. If the CPU is the Power PC, unfortunately, we cannot.
But, you can read some documents in the DVD.
- Q. How do I install the KNOPPIX/Math
to my hard disk like other linux systems?
A. If you are an exeprt, please use the command "knx2hd" or
"LC_ALL=C knx2hd".
This is an experimental command.
(If you fail to initialize the hard disk,
please use other linux distributions to initialize the hard disk
or use the commands "cfdisk" and "mkfs".)
If you are not expert, we recommend you do not try this and
instead
use the preinstalled image file for the VMware player.
It is very easy and comfortable.
- Q. The computer starts from the DVD, but the screen becomes black and
the system hangs. What should I do?
A. Our system does not use your hard disk unless you mount it.
Therefore, you may turn off your power switch and it will cause no damage
to your computer.
There are several boot options (cheatcodes).
You can see them by pressing F2 or F3.
A typical boot option which will lead you to a successful booting is
"knoppix screen=1024x768"
- Q. Can I use Japanese?
A. Boot with
knoppix lang=ja
This document is distributed with the GNU free documentation license version 1.2.
List of contributors of this document:
Tatsuyoshi Hadama, Nobuki Takayama, Wayne Rossman