World: r3wp

anyone using ZFS then? I'm tired of being bound to an OS with a file 
system.

Same for me. I tried MacDrive for Windows to get access to HFS+ drives. 
The problem is that XP silently initialized your drive with the result 
that OSX won't recognize it anymore but the HFS+ structure is still 
valid.


I fixed this, by using iPartition and changed the name of the drive. 
This results in the GPT being writting new and than the drive was 
OK. Lucky...

ZFS: I looked a bit into it. I think it's a very nice FS. OSX has 
only read support, so not of much value.

(yet)

If you were to have one Linux to start testing R3 builds on, which 
Linux would it be? Carl wants to know.

I would say ubuntu

One vote for Ubuntu :)

We need electronic ink as I already know that Tippin is going to 
vote twice for debian.  ;-)

That's why I asked. It's an informal poll, but not a secret one :)

I'm not voting, btw - I don't know enough about which Linux is the 
most popular in the REBOL community, and I use Windows :(

Ubuntu

which is Debian based ...

RedHat. (but Ubuntu will do as well). I would just say go for the 
one that has the largest community.

RedHat as a business is doing well.

Another vote for Ubuntu

Also note that rebdev is running on Ubuntu

I vote for Debian or Ubuntu

Debian allows you to start with an ISO image as small as 32 Mb, as 
seen here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst

Although it will download quite a bit more during the installation 
process.

Kubuntu, because it's using KDE.

Debian, as many small Live Cds use it as a base

I was used to Fedora (hence RedHat), but will now move to Ubuntu 
Server too. So - Ubuntu on my side ...

Debian

best way to start small and I use it for all my servers.

Isn't Debian and Ubuntu support the same ?

I think debian is (originally) more focused on servers whereas Ubuntu 
directly comes with GUI etc.

Ubuntu here too.

Ubuntu for me too.

Debian, but Ubuntu is fine as well.

I vote for Kubuntu

There´s no difference between Ubuntu and Kubuntu for porting REBOL 
- as long as you compare the same versions

There is a porting difference between Ubuntu and Debian, though; 
and between Ubuntu versions

unbuntu

that's a ubuntu variant?

XANDROS !

typo

debian

Anyone knows the difference between porting Rebol to Debian o porting 
Rebol to Fedora?

I run R3-alpha A33 Linux/Fedora 2.6.18 (http://www.rebol.com/r3/downloads/r30-core-a33-p421.gz) 
in a Kubuntu 8.10 CD-Live ( I think it's based on Debian ) and it 
seems to work ( I can chat )

And then, I download Rebol View 2.7.6 for Fedora (http://www.rebol.com/downloads/v276/rebview-fedx86.tar.gz) 
and it run perfect in a Kubuntu 8.10 CD-Live, better than Rebol View 
2.7.6 for Libc6, Debian (http://www.rebol.com/downloads/v276/rebview-linx86.tar.gz),for 
the last you need to install libstdc++5 and gcc-3.3-base.

any thing that does not use KDE 4

Manu, there's no difference in "porting", it's just that when you 
compile it you may have different versions of libraries or header 
files.

RedHat for me

That´s right. The REBOL builds on Fedora don´ t run on older Linuxes; 
for example Wolvix, which probably means all Linuxes based on Slackware 
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It seems to me that you have never heard/seen or tried Puppylinux, 
that's why you love Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora so much, I guess :-) If 
you try it, you would probably forget all those heavy distros. I 
run  R3 ver.2.100.33.4.2 (cli only) without problem on Puppylinux 
(www.puppylinux.com). As Puppy linux is mainly based on Slackware, 
I suppose it would run there nice as well. Now we are waiting for 
GUI :-)

(Kaj, I didn't mean you personally :-)

I'm a big fan of puppy too! That's my main prob with most linux...bloat. 
Is not bloat the reason we are trying to get away from windows?

Hey, some of us started on Ubuntu.  If I'm free on Spring Break I'm 
considering trying out other distros, but for now...

Hey Alexander :-)

Since Debian 5 is out. Is there a simple upgrade path from 4 to 5? 
I know about "apt-get upgrade" but does this  work without any hassels?

apt-get dist-upgrade