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Kaj, who's working on ORCA these days?

Karl is making fixes and small enhancements every once in a while, 
and I am making package releases

Congrats Kaj.

Thanks

hehe, Kaj ... just by few hours? :-) R3 is supposedly to be released 
today :-)

There can be only one winner ;-)

And we released last night. Sorry, but I had to sleep before thinking 
of you guys

Linux's year on the desktop http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=260&tag=nl.e590

Well, yeah, like the previous seven years or so...

But have a look here:

http://web.syllable.org/pages/about.html#technology

By the way, OLPC is now working with Microsoft to get Windows XP 
on their laptop, and they're so pleased with it because it is so 
much faster than they could get their Red Hat Linux to work in several 
years of development

Of course, the memory needs to be doubled to get XP on it in the 
first place... After they already doubled the main memory and upgraded 
the processor to get their Linux to run

So now their sales pitch is: here is a unique machine with unique 
software that is good for your kids. It's open source, so it's superior. 
It's just that it's very slow, so you can also choose to boot it 
in this Windows thing. The special kid's environment and all the 
special driver software isn't there, but at least it isn't slow as 
molasses. Oh, we doubled the price of the machine, and to run this 
Windows thing you also have to buy and install this extra memory 
upgrade

Train wreck, anyone?

One minor comment on the Syllable about page ... the content is fine 
but the page is "too busy". Perhaps moving the "Syllable for ..." 
inline content off on a separate page (or pages) might be a good 
idea. Also need to regroup the bullet points ... it's generally a 
bad idea to have a heading followed by more than about 7 bullet points 
(your first set has 21, so splitting the Desktop and Server points 
into sub-categories should improve things).

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind. It's a work in progress. Indeed I'm 
having trouble making it as accessible as possible, because it's 
quite a lot of information

I'm trying to keep it on one page, though. As soon as you spread 
things over multiple pages, most people simply won't go there

Is there enough information to get Syllable desktop on to OLPC?

I have seen the OLPC with AmigaOS running but I guess that's different 
...

You mean hardware documentation?

I've looked into their Linux distro. They stripped it down a lot, 
but otherwise it's fairly standard

It shouldn't be a big problem to get Syllable Server on it. Use their 
kernel configuration and add their drivers for their special hardware

Since it's basically a PC, Syllable Desktop should run as well, but 
it's fiddly to get it on it

The OLPC with AmigaOS is just their own Linux with an Amiga emulator 
on top. That's easy to install

I broke out the feature lists on the Syllable About page into categories 
now. I only had to move one bullet point

http://web.syllable.org/pages/about.html#Desktop

You may be interested to hear that Syllable runs on the Asus Eee 
PC ultra-mobile laptop:

http://osnews.com/story/19630/Syllable_Runs_on_the_Asus_Eee_PC

Keep up the good works Kaj.

run rebol view on syllable ?

Not yet, we're waiting for REBOL 3

Although QEmu runs on the current Syllable development versions, 
so if you really wanted to (and some of us do) you could run REBOL 
in Linux or Windows on QEmu

Very cool Kaj!

Thanks

I released a development build of Syllable Server:

http://development.syllable.org/pages/index.html

The new features are not complete yet, but the base functionality 
works better than the current 0.2 release

The new REBOL 2 Core is included, so the bug in CALL on Linux is 
fixed

Cheyenne and QuarterMaster are included, but their configuration 
is not complete yet. Should be easy to finish for someone already 
familiar with them, though

This version of Cheyenne still has a small bug with the new REBOL 
2, though. See the Cheyenne group here

REBOL/Services is included, although the public version is a bit 
behind on RT's development version

Way to go Kaj;  Cool news.  Go Syllable Go.  Umm, if you are headed 
down this route; checkout TRETBASE too.  Mmm; it's a REBOL tasty 
DB.

Thanks. Been looking into a bit, but I don't see where I could use 
it yet

So it would probably end up as a separate installation package for 
Syllable eventually

I'm working on the configurations for the new servers, and I got 
Cheyenne running on Syllable Server a while ago

What about the new netbooks?  I've just got an Acer Aspire One ... 
comes with Linpus ... http://blog.linuxoss.com/2008/06/acer-aspire-one-mini-notebook-with-linpus-linux-lite/

They're very interesting for Syllable

As you can see on our site, we managed to install Syllable on an 
Asus Eee PC a while ago and are improving our support for that

It's only details that need to be improved for the new netbooks. 
For the rest the issues are the same: Syllable is simply not finished 
yet