World: r3wp

As with R2, Carl will still need to build on 40+ platforms

Plus 40+ extra Linux distros, of course...

How is the Desktop different to Linux?

Different kernel, for one thing. Syllable Desktop has nothing to 
do with Linux. Server is the Syllable user space on the Linux kernel.

Next hobby OS could be Haiku, AmigaOS 4 ....

I also liked what I saw of Haiku.  


I do plan on trying out syllable in the not too distant future... 
basically when I'll build myself a linux machine, I'll make a few 
different boot partitions on that machine, one will be syllable  
:-)

Just run it as a vm

Real men run on bare metal :-)

I've had a lot of grief with networkind through vms

There's also no point in it for trying Syllable, because all the 
speed will be sucked up by the VM

The only good point would be if Syllable doesn't support the hardware, 
but that's more a concern with Haiku

how does syllable desktop compare as a multi-user file server?

There is, or at least was, a DVD factory in Denmark running on it

Speed isn't everything - you can test functionality in a VM.

But we declared him mad, just like Maxim and his REBOL C compiler 
:-)

Nevertheless, the DVD factory ran

I want to setup a file server box at home but don't want windows, 
nor mac for that.  the first sucks at file handling itself, the seconds 
well, its file explorer is just unproductive and even dangerous to 
use.

Was the DVD factory running multi-user?

Well, Desktop has its own file server design, so you'd have to port 
the client to your Mac and Windows

Is file I/O comparable to Linux?  
Does it support windows client connections out of the box?

Yes, the Desktop DVD server was churning through thousands of network 
accesses per day, from something in the order of five to ten clients, 
I think

I/O *speed* that is...

But the clients were Syllable Desktop running in VMs on Windows. 
That's how the client app was distributed - also to customers

I'm trying to say: no Windows clients, other than Syllable-on-Windows

And I/O speed is not very good, but it works

I told you we declared him and his boss mad

is there a way to install/compile something like SMB on it?

ehehe

Yes, Samba is long ported, but only the client, in principle

I seem to remember our founder tested the server, too, but in any 
case, it's not well tested

That's why I built Syllable Server as a companion

ok, well I'll give it a good testing when I get that extra machine 
setup.

Why is it that you build a desktop OS, and everyone immediately wants 
to run a server with it? :-)

hahahahah  I want a clean desktop to run the management on... I really 
don't like the linux KDE and Gnome desktops.

the first is as fast as a bee stuck in molasses, while the later, 
well it just sucks.  ;-)

There is someone running a public web server on Desktop - on his 
own web server in his own language

another mad mad  ;-)

Dunno, at least this one is not business critical. A decade ago, 
Syllable's forerunner was already running as a public web/FTP/CVS 
server

Was slashdotted several times without going down

I did just get the OpenSSH server going on Desktop. A long standing 
request from these server operators

the reason I want to try out syllable is that it seems to align with 
much of the sane Amiga principles while sheding those which seemed 
more closely related to religion.

would be nice to try to get the latest mesa project running on it 
with the gallium driver model.  that would get you HW accelerated 
gfx without the need for your own HW drivers.

(once I have a bit more C/C++ under my belt, I might see if that's 
at all possible).

Yup

is syllable GPL or MIT/BSD ?

If you could settle for an FTP server you could try Desktop, but 
you can't trust your files to be safe

LGPL, mainly, so you can run closed software on it

ok.  LGPL is a "fair" license.  if you edit others work, you help 
them back, but your not *forced* to have them leverage your work 
for free

Yup

Depending on linking issues, of course. Fortunately the R3 host kit 
seems to be compatible with that linking model :)