[Numpy-discussion] VMWare Virtual Appliance of Ubuntu with numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and ipython available

This is a note to announce the availability of a VMWare Virtual Appliance with Ubuntu linux with numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and ipython installed. This should make it relatively easy to try out the software. The VMWare Player and VMWare Server are available for no cost from http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ and http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ The download URL is: http://mosca.caltech.edu/outgoing/Ubuntu%207.04%20for%20scientific%20computi... The username is "ubuntu" and the password is "abc123". The network will share the host's interface using NAT. The md5sum is 4191e13abda1154c94e685ffdc0f829b. I have updated http://scipy.org/Download with this information.