World: r3wp

maybe not even HT

SMP doesn't support all SMP-type configurations yet. You could try 
disabling it

in preferences?

A boot parameter needs to be added to the GrUB menu. It's a bit tricky

I see :(

well, nothing is responding .. so time to kill vmware player again.

I think you would be best off trying the live CD, not VMWare. And 
then choose the menu option to disable SMP

Ok, maybe another day.

the live cd I tried before was much better experience than this

Yes, it's strange. VMWare is a well-defined environment, and it works 
fairly well for people

But it's still emulation, of cource. It can never be as good as the 
live CD - and the live CD can never be as good as an installed system

Well, Reichart will tell you that I can break anything!

:-)

We just released Syllable 0.6.3:

http://syllable.org/story.php?id=255

Here are the highlights:

* A cleaner, fresher looking Desktop
    * Initial support for printing with CUPS
    * Support for Broadcom Gigabit ethernet cards
    * Support for USB CD-ROM drives
    * Rendering and graphics speed improvements
    * The GRUB boot loader can now be installed automatically

    * New versions of many applications, including AEdit, AView and Whisper
    * Improved media support and playback
    * Many bug fixes and improved application compatibility
    * Many improved drivers

Just before the previous release four months ago, 0.6.2, we introduced 
automatic weekly builds of the entire system, and a bug tracker on 
the web. So this is the first release that we have developed under 
full bug tracking and weekly builds

As a result, many bugs were reported and fixed, so this release has 
much improved overall quality

congratulations for all that work.

Thanks

In terms of REBOL, I extended upon the pkgmanager system tool that 
I rewrote in ORCA. It has a new interface and is now called Packager, 
or the package command

can the "official" REBOL run on it?  emulated or otherwise?

Not natively. We're waiting for the REBOL 3 open-source layer to 
port it

that is good news :-)

one developper question:  how much of the old Amiga RKMs still apply 
within Syllable?

0% 10% 50%  ?

It should be possible to run some version in some emulator, but I 
haven't done it yet. We've only had Bochs running in the past. We're 
still having some problems porting QEmu, but we're looking into it

SDL is now fully functional in Syllable, so porting emulators should 
be much easier now

RKMs?

hehe... I guess that answers my question ;-)

so you just put an amiga skin over linux kernel then?

Our project leader would know what they are, but I only collect Amiga's 
:-)

Rom Kernel Manuals... the official Amiga Bible.

No. Look ma, no Linux kernel! The whole system is our own. We only 
use ported Linux and XFree drivers

ok, so does the OS API mimic those from the Amiga?  (and would thus 
allow easier port of old Amiga sources)

I have those manuals here somewhere, but... Only AtheOS version 1 
was meant as an Amiga clone, eons ago. It was rewritten three times 
to become its own operating system. Only the general Amiga spirit 
remains - with the BeOS spirit on top of it

k

Someone should port UAE one of these days

would that be like incest  ;-)

Since AROS can run hosted, it would be thinkable to port it to Syllable, 
maybe even with deeper integration

Those are interesting possibilities, but it's not a focus of ours

are you going to devcon?

We're only three or five people. Creating an operating system is 
a bit of a... tall order

I would like to go, but I'm afraid I will be too busy this year

I think that you could have a nice private talk with Carl... since 
you have all the reasons to port R3, I think it would be a good use 
case for Carl to make sure the whole design doesn't assume linux 
windows or Mac

ah well.

does syllable only run on x86?  or could it be retargetted on efika 
boards, for example?

Don't worry. I already did that a year and a half ago in Milan :-)

:-)