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[Syllable] The free desktop and server operating system family

Pekr
15-Jun-2007
[917]
:-)
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[918x2]
black's last move was e7-e5 which sacrifices a pawn for no good reason.
I think you need a better screenshot!
Rebolek
15-Jun-2007
[920]
:)))
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[921x2]
Pekr, an OS that boots in 10 seconds, has a fully functional scriptable 
browser, printing, and rebol would be ideal for my EMR as a client 
platforml.
Skype as well would be good.
Pekr
15-Jun-2007
[923x2]
Graham - what about some small linux distros? E.g. knoppix?
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[925x2]
Yeah, OOo is depressing
I'll relay the Chess complaint :-)
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[927]
I've downloaded a livePC of DSL but couldn't get it to work for me 
... no internet connectivity.  Maybe it's because I tried a vista 
host.
Kaj
16-Jun-2007
[928x2]
It's bug 248:
http://development.syllable.org/BugDar/showreport.php?bugid=248
Graham
16-Jun-2007
[930]
LOL
[unknown: 9]
16-Jun-2007
[931]
Which bug tracker are you using?
Graham
16-Jun-2007
[932]
See the attribution at the bottom of the page http://www.bluestatic.org/software/bugdar/
[unknown: 9]
16-Jun-2007
[933]
Yeah, actually that was a misspost, I wanted to actually ask, why 
is he not using Trac?
Graham
16-Jun-2007
[934]
trac spam?
Kaj
17-Jun-2007
[935x3]
Bugdar was chosen without discussion by our webmaster from a while 
ago, but it's actually a fairly nice, simple tracker, that does what 
it says: just bug tracking. I've always found Trac a bit too convoluted. 
You have to buy in to the whole concept and then it defines your 
entire site. We already have a site that we built from pieces that 
we customized, so Bugdar was a reasonable addition
I do want to replace the entire site piece meal with our own REBOL 
system in the future, though
By the way, the author of Puri Chess has responded
Maxim
17-Jun-2007
[938]
wow, only at bug 248?
Kaj
17-Jun-2007
[939]
It hasn't been open that long. :-) About eight monts now. The current 
Syllable release is the first one that was produced under formal, 
public bug tracking, so a lot of bugs got squashed. Previously, we 
didn't have very many reports, and the time to fix them is scarce, 
anyway
Maxim
17-Jun-2007
[940]
almost seems like you should give a gift to the person who reports 
bug 250... a free copy of syllable   ;-p
Kaj
17-Jun-2007
[941x2]
Another way to look at it is that only a few percent of our code, 
like 1 or 2 %, is ours. The rest is all ported and adapted, so for 
an operating system in its development phase, made by a handful of 
people, it's amazingly stable
:-)
Maxim
17-Jun-2007
[943]
I promise to download the vmware image in the near future.
Kaj
17-Jun-2007
[944]
Great :-)
Maxim
17-Jun-2007
[945]
there is also the DSL which is tempting me...
Kaj
17-Jun-2007
[946]
If near is in the order of weeks, it would be best to wait for 0.6.4
Maxim
17-Jun-2007
[947x2]
(just for linux compatibility testing... I myself HATE linux for 
the desktop)
bah, vmware images are non aggressive things :-)  I was thinking 
before that... does syllable have a C compiler setup internally within 
syllable?
Kaj
17-Jun-2007
[949]
Not in the base distribution, but you only have to install the Developer's 
Delight package, and maybe a few other individual packages depending 
on what you want to compile
Maxim
17-Jun-2007
[950]
hehe  I love the name... I can see will ferell singing it in my mind 
 :-)
Graham
17-Jun-2007
[951]
Oh well .. mea culpa.  But white should not be in this position in 
the first place.
Kaj
17-Jun-2007
[952]
Well, I guess white is having a bad day. :-) I don't know if it's 
the human or the computer
Kaj
29-Jun-2007
[953x8]
The 2007 Syllable Conference was held last weekend, on the Frisian 
sailing ship Stęd Sleat. We called it "Boat to Freedom". :-) My report 
is here:
http://syllable.org/story.php?id=265
OSNews is reporting on it here:
http://osnews.com/story.php/18165/Syllable-WebKit-Port-Syllable-Server
As promised, we made several important announcements. To see all 
of them, you'll have to read the article, but I'll mention the two 
that are attracting the most attention
We ported WebKit, Apple's web rendering engine, to Syllable to build 
a new browser. Our old browser was based on KHTML, the open source 
engine that Apple forked to develop into WebKit
Since the publication, Apple has already come to our mailing list 
to ask us to join their WebKit project
The second announcement is that we are introducing a server companion 
to our Syllable desktop system. Syllable Server is based on the Linux 
kernel, but otherwise as much like Syllable as possible
Graham
29-Jun-2007
[961]
I think it should be not "compliments Syllable on the desktop." but 
"complements"
Kaj
29-Jun-2007
[962]
I know. Anything else to mention on us creating a new operating system 
and a new browser?
Graham
29-Jun-2007
[963x2]
well, that's nice .. but I was hoping for a Rebol announcement :(
But if it means I can get a server environment that runs vmware without 
endless issues ... then it's great news!!
Kaj
30-Jun-2007
[965x2]
REBOL/Core is included in the Linux. Since it's a Linux, it didn't 
have to be ported
I didn't want to make that part of the announcements yet, to give 
people time to digest the idea of our use of Linux. That's plenty 
controversial already :-)