World: r4wp

packed manually - the archive form is OVA, but workstation only produces 
the files

OK

here's a link on google drive - supposedly anyone with the link can 
access with no login

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-dRFgFxR1iJOEtySWJ5NWFBMXc

That just works, and in under two minutes :-)

Is it meant for public downloads?

sure, if you share it that way

same as all the others +/- some little things - you have 5 GB too 
if you have GMail, no?

So you can host it there?

yeah, lots of people have links to google docs files

I mean out in the public

I have Google Drive?

Yeah, but this is a big file, and it's going to be downloaded many 
times

yeah, google drive is part of  google docs - they've sort of unified 
everything

I don't use Google Docs

I wouldn't worry - never saw them specify limits on Docs fies

that was free too for individual use

you have google docs too, if you had gmail

well, you might need to register, actually - but there's no cost

The hosting is not the point, though. I can host files, but if it's 
an official Syllable release, I should have done all the quality 
control and it should be in all the usual places, such as SourceForge. 
If it's a contribution, the hosting should also be contributed to 
make that clear, and I can just link to it

I'll publish your link one of these days. Can I use your name to 
credit you?

up to you - if you need it to idemnify yourself, go ahead - personally, 
I don't need to see a credit with the link

I'm curious - how much traffic do you get from the image downloads?

Not for indemnification, just for credit. It's a volunteer project, 
after all

Syllable versions have been downloaded several ten thousand times 
per version. If a version is current for a long time, the VM image 
could be downloaded twenty thousand times, for example

so the user base is significant?

Depends if you consider that significant :-)

sure, if it's that many individual downloads per version, that's 
quite a good number

judging by the forum traffic I would've guessed less

It's likely that people actually use or at least try the VM and live 
CD. The installer is downloaded about equally often as the live CD, 
and there it's doubtful that many of them lead to used installations

So it's a bit of a mystery. The forum indeed doesn't reflect it, 
but there also other reasons for that. It's been hard to register 
there for years, because we've had to block most common mail domains 
due to spam

It's also likely that Syllable is used most in places where people 
wouldn't easily come forward on an English forum

I guess that means most users are self sufficient

Could be. We think Syllable is still too hard to use, but maybe it 
isn't :-)

majority from Europe?

No, US, Russia, India, than many European countries. Of course, that 
way they're not added up, unlike the big continents

We see people taking two days to download at snail speed via BitTorrent. 
I imagine they're in Siberia or something. That's why the downloads 
need to be as small as possible

I wonder how most people come to it - if you search for compact/small 
Linux distributions, does it come up in the results? I would think 
most people looking to get something lightweight would look at linux, 
not some completely different OS

so you should make sure it's visible in those searches

From many places, I think. We have a decade of publications all over 
the web

We get hits from many of the same search phrases as Linux, since 
most of the same software is in Syllable, and we have an extra Linux 
system

I wonder if it can be hosted on glacier .. then it would only take 
a few days to download :)

Got my Syllable 0.6.7 image running in VMware, thanks to AdrianS 
for making the image available!

http://web.syllable.org/news/2012-12-19-01-42-Open-sourced-REBOL-3-language-runs-natively-on-Syllable.html

Awesome, Kaj!

Wish I had more time.  I'd love to play with Syllable.

Thanks

R3 has been included in Syllable Desktop for a year and a half. Syllable 
Server ships with R2 and a collection of REBOL frameworks

I added Fork's preliminary R3 port of Red to the build system, with 
an overlay for Syllable Desktop so it can be experimented with there:

http://syllable.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/syllable/syllable/system/apps/utils/Builder/packages/Red--current/