World: r3wp

I tried my cURL binding on Syllable Desktop and it just worked

As I suspected, I didn't even have to recompile the Linux binary, 
just as with the core REBOL 3 library

This past Saturday we held our Winter Syllable Conference:

http://web.syllable.org/2011/WinterSylCon/main.html

Most of the demos had REBOL in them

We introduced and handed out a sneak preview of our new Syllable 
Desktop live CD, introduced the REBOL 3 cURL binding and went through 
our planned demonstration of setting up a website provider on Syllable 
Server, running on Cheyenne, making a website on Desktop with my 
REBOL CMS, building it with REBOL 3 and uploading it to Server with 
the cURL binding, with a short demo of the graphical version of Syllable 
Server thrown in

nice!

live CD is very interesting.

I'm finishing it off for release in the coming weeks

Well, just finish, not finish off :-)

;-)

will the live CD run in VMWare, Parallels or VirtualBox?

All of them as far as we know, but we can't test them ourselves

VMware is usually best

Or QEmu

Works in VirtualBox

You mean the current live CD? That's the very old 0.6.4 one

ok :-) well, it worked.

Thanks for testing, but this one has no REBOL included yet

I hope to release the new one in a week or two

I'll be sure to try it on my laptop and give you feedback...  :-)

Cool

syllable cvs down?

ah yes. the aftermath of the attacks on sourceforge, it seems.

Yes, more SF suckage

We also have source packages of stable releases, though

The web viewer of SF CVS is back

This also makes the source of the R3 extensions available again

Pertaining to the previous discussion in "Red": If you do
readelf -h `which ls` | grep Type
on Syllable, what type do you get? EXEC, DYN, something else?

DYN

Cool, thanks.

I've written a build recipe for the Fossil version control system:

http://syllable.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/syllable/syllable/system/apps/utils/Builder/packages/Fossil--current/

Of course it just works on Syllable Server, because that's Linux, 
but for Syllable Desktop it turns out to need the newest Syllable 
development build for advanced facilities

So we can use it as a cross-platform solution

What is the default root password for Desktop edition?

root

Desktop version runs fine on VMware 7.0.

Ah, one more convert :-)

:-)

I've produced a new Syllable Desktop live CD, shipping with REBOL 
3 and Boron:

http://web.syllable.org/pages/get-Syllable.html#Live-CD

@Kaj: I just tried SyllableDesktop-0.6.6-LiveCD.i586 on my Asus Eee 
PC netbook yesterday. It worked when I select "USB 1 only / Asus 
Eee PC" after giving lots of "panic" msg during boot. But then it 
worked great.

Why was it having panic attacks for?

I don't know, it said "flush_block ... failed" several time (20-30 
times may be) I thought that it doesn't work but then desktop appeared 
and it works fine.

Nice to hear

The panics can be ignored. That's not normally the case, but it is 
because it's running on a CD while it is expecting a writable medium

The parts of the system that count are moved into a RAM disk during 
start-up

Endo, what's the resolution of your EeePC screen? I'm interested 
if the default 800x600 resolution works on 800x480 netbooks

By the way, it's on OSNews now: