Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Get a (toy) Mathematica 10 now and for free

I noticed over one month ago that Mathematica is supproting Raspberry Pi (rpi). But What I haven't noticed is that the rpi version of Mathematica is a preview of version 10.0. Otherwise I could have tried the whole thing much earlier.

I don't have a rpi, neither motivation to get one. Nevertheless, it is easy to use an emulator -- qemu -- to emulate the hardware of rpi from a x86 pc. And here is how:

First follow the instructions here

http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-way/

Then resize the sd, to have more space (I resized to 8GB myself)

http://superuser.com/questions/24838/is-it-possible-to-resize-a-qemu-disk-image

Finally install Mathematica.

It's very annoying that qemu can only run rpi at 640x480. I managed to get it to 800x600 by modifying xorg.conf following this instructions:

http://www.soslug.org/wiki/raspberry_pi_emulation

But higher than 800x600 is not yet luck.

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