World: r3wp

I'm finishing it off for release in the coming weeks

Well, just finish, not finish off :-)

;-)

will the live CD run in VMWare, Parallels or VirtualBox?

All of them as far as we know, but we can't test them ourselves

VMware is usually best

Or QEmu

Works in VirtualBox

You mean the current live CD? That's the very old 0.6.4 one

ok :-) well, it worked.

Thanks for testing, but this one has no REBOL included yet

I hope to release the new one in a week or two

I'll be sure to try it on my laptop and give you feedback...  :-)

Cool

syllable cvs down?

ah yes. the aftermath of the attacks on sourceforge, it seems.

Yes, more SF suckage

We also have source packages of stable releases, though

The web viewer of SF CVS is back

This also makes the source of the R3 extensions available again

Pertaining to the previous discussion in "Red": If you do
readelf -h `which ls` | grep Type
on Syllable, what type do you get? EXEC, DYN, something else?

DYN

Cool, thanks.

I've written a build recipe for the Fossil version control system:

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

Of course it just works on Syllable Server, because that's Linux, 
but for Syllable Desktop it turns out to need the newest Syllable 
development build for advanced facilities

So we can use it as a cross-platform solution

What is the default root password for Desktop edition?

root

Desktop version runs fine on VMware 7.0.

Ah, one more convert :-)

:-)

I've produced a new Syllable Desktop live CD, shipping with REBOL 
3 and Boron:

http://web.syllable.org/pages/get-Syllable.html#Live-CD

@Kaj: I just tried SyllableDesktop-0.6.6-LiveCD.i586 on my Asus Eee 
PC netbook yesterday. It worked when I select "USB 1 only / Asus 
Eee PC" after giving lots of "panic" msg during boot. But then it 
worked great.

Why was it having panic attacks for?

I don't know, it said "flush_block ... failed" several time (20-30 
times may be) I thought that it doesn't work but then desktop appeared 
and it works fine.

Nice to hear

The panics can be ignored. That's not normally the case, but it is 
because it's running on a CD while it is expecting a writable medium

The parts of the system that count are moved into a RAM disk during 
start-up

Endo, what's the resolution of your EeePC screen? I'm interested 
if the default 800x600 resolution works on 800x480 netbooks

By the way, it's on OSNews now:

http://www.osnews.com/story/24852/New_Syllable_Desktop_Live_CD_Released

my screen res. is 1024x600 but Syllable opens 800x600 screen and 
there is only 640x480 and 800x600 options, no 1024x600.

I also switched to turkish-q keyboard, I able to write turkish letters 
with no problem. That is nice, becuase on many OSes turkish letters 
are problematic.

Cool, thanks for the report :-)

Apart from the Alt-Function keys, did you also try the Preferences/Screen 
applet? I think the offered resolutions are a function of the video 
driver. Some drivers know some wide screen resolutions, but not many

I tried Preferences/Screen applet, there was just 640x480 and 800x600. 
I will try live cd on my desktop pc this weekend also, it is an old 
amd athlon.

OK, thanks. To get wide screen resolutions, the driver for your video 
chip would need to be updated

There is no USB bootable version, right? It could be good because 
it is a writable media.