World: r3wp

As for Syllable vs Haiku - I am not sure those can be compared, community 
wise. Feature wise maybe, but I expect Haiku community being vital,no? 
On the other hand, as for all the alternative OS developmens - what 
is their target? Just a hobby? With tonnes of mobile devices out 
there, is there any chance they can find their commercial niche?

That's a very long story. I can't speak for the motivation of the 
Haiku developers, and I can't predict the future of Syllable, so 
I won't try

As to how trolls are born, as you suspect, people left the project 
for different priorities, and for many different reasons

People leave volunteer projects all the time, and it's very easy 
for a troll to make it seem like it has something to do with the 
people remaining. Suffice it to say that this is motivated by their 
own feelings of inferiority, and far beside the truth

I'm releasing a new Syllable Desktop development build tomorrow. 
Here's a torrent download:

http://downloads.syllable.org/development/SyllableDesktop-0.6.7-2012.02.14.i586.iso.7z?torrent

Here's the development files pack, needed for compiling software:

http://downloads.syllable.org/development/SyllableDesktop-0.6.7-2012.02.14-development.i586.zip?torrent

REBOL 3 is now in there, as on the live CD, including my cURL binding. 
I upgraded Boron to the latest version. ORCA is also still in there, 
for the Syllable package manager. I also added Fossil and many other 
components

Red/system?

The Red/System compiler is written in REBOL 2 which I don't think 
runs on Syllable desktop. Some work would probably needed even if 
REBOL 2 is there.

Yes, there's no R2, but if there were, Red/System would work. It 
will be included in the next Syllable Server

If Red/System takes a long time to be rewritten in Red, it might 
be an option to get it to run on R3, so it would run on Syllable 
Desktop

Is that particularly difficult?

ie. are the differences between R2 and R3 that great ?

Since Red/System has its own struct! library for R2/Core, I think 
it should be doable to port it to R3, which also lacks struct! (it's 
there, but somehow unimplemented)

Not sure I want to spend time on it, because Red is next in the planning. 
But if you're looking to help... :-)

The announcement is now here:

http://development.syllable.org/news/2012-02-15-04-08-Syllable-0.6.7-release-candidate.html