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[Syllable] The free desktop and server operating system family
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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 :-) | |
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