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Cool, thanks for the find

Yesterday we released Syllable 0.6.2. The full announcement is here:

http://www.syllable.org/story.php?id=246

It has taken us half a year this time. Almost all parts of the system 
have been overhauled, but this includes my build system. The system 
build is now finally fully automated, and we are confident that we 
can use this to get back to one release every two or three months

This release also marks the first time that Orca is actually used 
in the system, after already being included in the previous release. 
I rewrote pkgmanager in it, a tool used to register and unregister 
binary packages by managing a pool of symbolic links

Other highlights of this release are:

- A new audio subsystem, partly moved from the kernel to user space, 
including support for multichannel and digital audio. Video is also 
improved, with support for many more video formats

- A new scheduler, which makes things like audio and video much more 
usable. You can now keep using the system for other tasks while playing 
multimedia. In fact, we can now easily replicate the famous BeOS 
demo with six videos running at the same time

- We fixed enough bugs in SMP and threading that the system is usable 
again on at least a number of SMP, Hyper Threading and multi-core 
machines

Quite a few new drivers, for NTFS, USB keyboards, audio and several 
gigabit ethernet adapters

- Many more system parts and applications were made localizable and 
got translations for a number of languages

- SDL is now included in the system, so a wide range of cross-platform 
graphical applications can be made to work, often with little effort

Congatulations Kaj!

Thanks :-)

will try it , there was an article about Syllable in this months 
Linux Format with Kristian

Yeah, I was actually at the photo shoot for that :-)

Kaj is it possible to get a vmdk for Syllable ? I updated my copy 
of VMware but it did not work so I'm using VmPlayer

Yes, there's an external site hosting VMWare images. It's linked 
from our announcement of 0.6.2 and from our Get It page

Note that, although behavior in VMWare is improved with this release, 
speed is not optimal. There are a few tricks to improve it

ok thanks dling now

ok got it running but does not seem like a normal *nix system.Mainly 
I was trying to find the /mnt dir and does not seem like it has 1 
?Also I got the email program set up and it dled my mail but was 
not able to open the folder ?

That's right, Syllable is not Unix. Indeed there is no /mnt directory. 
There could be, and like Unix, volumes can be mounted anywhere in 
the file tree, but the convention is to mount volumes in the root: 
/

On the desktop, you can open the Disks folder, and then rightclick 
in the background to get a mount dialog and choose an available volume. 
Those will be mounted in the root. Manually in the terminal, you 
could mount volumes anywhere with the mount and unmount commands

A clear distinction from Unix is that the root of the filesystem 
is virtual (it's kept in a RAM disk). Links, directories and mounts 
there are cleared when the system is rebooted

What exactly happened with the Whisper mail program? How could you 
not open what folder?

Hm, the screen corruption in VMWare should be fixed in 0.6.2

is this 0.6.2 version I downloaded?

Graham, do you mean the terminal doesn't open?

Yep.

Double click on the terminal icon on the desktop .. nothing happens.

It should be 0.6.2. Look in the Syllable menu upper left and then 
About

I  did that ...

What version does it say?

0.6.2

screen full of corrupted Abrowse screens.  Rebooting the image.

What does the screen corruption look like?

Like it's not refreshing the screen.

Won't shut down either.  going to kill it via windows task manager.

Better use Ctrl-Alt-Del

If you move the mouse over it, does that part get drawn? That was 
the old problem

Just rebooted ..

I typed http://www.rebol.com/in the browser ... and it's not doing 
much.

the terminal now opens but leaves a trial all over the browser as 
I move the terminal window around ...so i guess the browser is busy

Yes

It's using DHCP, so VMWare has to be configured to support that

Oh ..

All the other vmware images I have used seem to browse fine.

I think something needs to be configured, but I don't know what

Most things don't work I'm afraid.

Maybe you have to set Syllable to DHCP, in the Network Preferences