[Numpy-discussion] Vista installer?

[Andrew Straw]

Charles R Harris wrote:
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> On 5/24/07, *Ryan Krauss* <ryanlists at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ryanlists at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     I am trying to use Numpy/Scipy for a class I am teaching this summer.
>     I have one student running Vista.  Is there an installer that works
>     for Vista?  Running the exe file from webpage gives errors about not
>     being able to create various folders and files.  I think this is from
>     Vista being very restrictive about which files and folders are
>     writable.  Is anyone out there running Numpy/Scipy in Vista?  If so,
>     how did you get it to work?
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> Install Ubuntu? ;) I've heard nothing but complaints and nasty words 
> from co-workers stuck with new computers and trying to use Vista as a 
> development platform for scientific work.
Just a follow-up, vmware is now given away and Ubuntu has always been 
free, and I guess most computers with Vista have native support for 
virtualization. So, this way you could run Ubuntu and Vista 
simultaneously without a speed loss on either or partitioning the drive. 
Of course, if it were me I'd put Ubuntu as the host OS and probably 
never boot the guest OS. ;)