World: r3wp

If you don't feed it the VMware image, you must at least choose the 
VirtualBox installation option

I didn't Kaj, I will try again.

There's more information about this in the startup menu, on our download 
page and in our FAQ

Published the R3 "port" on OSNews:

http://www.osnews.com/story/22639/REBOL_3_Runs_on_Syllable_Desktop

Kaj: you got a mention here : http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/10-operating-systems-you-ve-never-heard-of-657469

Ah cool - or maybe not :-)

Oh, that's Mike Saunders, our regular reporter, but this is the first 
time I see him writing here

It means we've also been in the PCPlus print magazine. Michael has 
been writing us up for years in the Linux Format magazine

As I've hinted above, I've been working on a graphical desktop version 
of Syllable Server. I have a preview available now

It contains REBOL/View 2.7.7, Boron, ORCA, AltME, the development 
version of Cheyenne with WebSockets, QuarterMaster, REBOL/Services 
and some smaller things such as Doc's MySQL driver, all preconfigured

More standard inclusions are Firefox 3.5, Flash, Thunderbird and 
XFMedia

It's built on top of Syllable Server, so you can also use it as an 
easily approachable server

good work kaj   :-)

We're now running our desktops, laptops and our AltME server on it

Thanks

If you're interested in the preview, contact me privately here for 
the download link

I'd like to have more time.

I'm in a crunch right now.

The download is 260 MB and the installed footprint is 1.5 GB

Minimum required memory is 64 MB

Graphical desktop server version?  To replace the desktop desktop 
version??

No, it's additional. We've long planned the graphical Linux to force 
a migration path for Syllable Desktop

They're developed in lockstep, so most of the work I do on the Linux 
systems also goes into Desktop

There will also be a separate name for the desktop Linux, but I'll 
keep that under wraps for now

Thanks for the update Kaj!

I haven't officially announced it yet, but I just released Syllable 
Server 0.4:

http://web.syllable.org/Linux/downloads.html

This release focuses on maturing existing functionality, improving 
security, ongoing system restructuring, and making the system a suitable 
base for third-party package managers.

Many included software packages have been upgraded, including REBOL/Core 
(2.7.7), Cheyenne/UniServe (current development version with WebSockets) 
and QuarterMaster

This is the first Syllable release to include Boron, the successor 
to ORCA, the open source REBOL implementation

For those familiar with Linux and other Unix systems, it's interesting 
to note that some heavy system restructuring has been applied to 
make the system more understandable, by ditching as much of the ancient 
Unix legacy as possible. For example, the common software package 
layout has been restructured like this:

etc             -> settings
  bin             -> programs
  sbin            -> system-programs
  libexec         -> framework/executables
  lib             -> framework/libraries
  include         -> framework/headers
  share/aclocal   -> framework/AutoConfigure
  share/pkgconfig -> framework/PackageConfigure
  lib/pkgconfig   -> framework/PackageConfigure
  share           -> data
  share/doc       -> documentation
  man             -> manuals
  share/man       -> manuals
  info            -> manuals/info
  share/info      -> manuals/info

Standard user names have also been sanitised. For example, the super 
user account has been renamed from "root" to "system"

Here's the full change log:

http://web.syllable.org/Server/Changes.txt

The updated manual, which is quite extensive, if I may say so, and 
explains the key abilities of the system step by step:

http://web.syllable.org/Server/README-SyllableServer.txt

It's on OSNews now:

http://www.osnews.com/story/23427/Syllable_Server_0_4_Released

When will you have an install script for the server?

That will still take a while. Before that is useful I need to produce 
a live CD, and many other things also need to be done

Manual installation is really not difficult with Syllable, though

so the vm I downloaded yesterday is really old??

So, how about a screencast of the manual installation?

Server 0.4 was already published yesterday, but the VM version is 
still really old, yes

A screencast would be nice. I don't have time for it, though. It 
would be a nice thing for someone to contribute

So the install takes a really long time??

No, one last week took fifteen minutes to unpack the files on a very 
old 266 MHz P2

(Which is running our ten AltME worlds, by the way)