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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/

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

Ever thought of setting up an AWS ami ?  With Cheyenne and QM configured 
?

Yes, I wanted to do that even before EC2 opened up, to get a business 
model going. But regardless of their promises, after all these years 
they still don't support their payment system outside the US

All you need is a US bank account

but that is difficult to obtain if you're not a citizen

And that will get you all the trouble of running a US company

However, you can still upload an AMI ... don't need to be paid for 
that

Sure, but I'd have to create it, and I don't have an incentive