World: r3wp

When is the GUI due ?

I'm going to pull an R3 on you and say When It's Ready :-)

end of 2008 then?

The first phase, building the base Linux, was mine. Now it's up to 
our project leader to port the Syllable stuff. I think I'm going 
to push him like we push Carl. :-) Actually, I'm hoping he will feel 
the pressure from people like you asking for it :-)

yeah .. some of us are too old to remember command line arguments 
and tool usage

I'm actually forced to learn Linux now ;-)

I'm fairly sure I'm the first person in the world to build a Linux 
without caring much for it :-)

a html version of the readme would be nice :)

Yeah, but that belongs in a somewhat long-term grand plan to design 
our documentation framework

use a wiki

No, there's noone but me for some time to come who could write this 
documentation

I've actually had a REBOL HTML generator for years, I just need to 
wrap it up and it wasn't worth postponing Server for

reading txt files in a browser is very tricky

understanding Brenno de Winter's article is even harder

It can easily be downloaded into a line-wrapping viewer

That's a problem of a different order: learn Dutch :-)

Anyway, I'vejust replaced our website with my own REBOL content management 
system, so the documentation plan has been set in motion

Yet Another Rebol Content Management System ?

Yup

Sorry, but I don't understand why nobody does it my way :-)

You're definitely not being invited to R3!

I'd consider using it as a virtualisation platform, but I guess I'd 
wait till a GUI was wrapped around at least the installation

and I could VNC into the server

Yeah, I'm looking at VNC and stuff like that for the next round

QEmu has a built-in VNC server, so if you run virtualised systems 
on Server, you should be able to VNC into them; but I haven't tried 
it yet

There's also VNC support in the DirectFB video subsystem, so that 
we be another level to integrate at, but I have to build it in first

make sure that you have an image that can run on S3 :)

.. I mean EC2

Ehm, that's a secret plan...

Our website already runs on S3, and our downloads

Supported by my CMS, albeit through Ruby

interesting

Starting to feel for my way? ;-)

A basic installer is one of the next projects, but it's one of those 
things that I don't know when I will get to

a movie will do :)

An instruction movie?

yeah ..

Do you think that would add to command-line instructions?

it means I wouldn't have to read the instructions :)

You won't get away with that :-)

Amazon have all those instructional movies

But I could do a slideshow when I prepare an emulator image]

Only hard core users will do a console install .. so need to bridge 
to those others

Yeah, it's for hardcore and adventurous users now. After you install, 
you're on your own configuring, anyway

But I made sure that all standard configurations have useful default 
settings, unlike most Linuxes

We moved our daylight saving this year ...

I think all my linux boxes have the wrong time.

If you're installing on a stand-alone machine, you could get away 
without configuring anything, and with a different partition setup 
you only have to modify the filesystem table, which is standard practice 
for Unix types

and there doesn't appear to be a fix for windows 2000

Yeah, I read Debian refused to update it?