Licensing and Availability
Sage is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2+. Sage is available in many ways:
- The source code can be downloaded from the downloads page. Although not recommended for end users, development releases of Sage are also available.
- Binaries can be downloaded for Linux, OS X and Solaris (both x86 and SPARC).
- A live CD containing a bootable Linux operating system is also available. This allows usage of Sage without Linux installation.
- Users can use an online version of Sage at sagenb.org, but with a limit to the amount of memory a user can use.
Although Microsoft was sponsoring a native version of Sage for the Windows operating system, as of 2012 there were no plans for a native port, and users of Windows currently have to use virtualization technology such as VirtualBox to run Sage.
Linux distributions in which Sage is available as a package are Mandriva and Arch Linux. It is also available as a dedicated Ubuntu PPA. In Gentoo, it's available via layman in the "sage-on-gentoo" overlay. However, Sage can be installed to any Linux distribution.
Gentoo prefix also provides Sage on other operating systems.
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