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[Syllable] The free desktop and server operating system family
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Kaj 10-Nov-2006 [644x2] | - Many more system parts and applications were made localizable and got translations for a number of languages |
- SDL is now included in the system, so a wide range of cross-platform graphical applications can be made to work, often with little effort | |
Gregg 10-Nov-2006 [646] | Congatulations Kaj! |
Kaj 10-Nov-2006 [647] | Thanks :-) |
Alan 12-Nov-2006 [648] | will try it , there was an article about Syllable in this months Linux Format with Kristian |
Kaj 13-Nov-2006 [649] | Yeah, I was actually at the photo shoot for that :-) |
Alan 24-Nov-2006 [650] | Kaj is it possible to get a vmdk for Syllable ? I updated my copy of VMware but it did not work so I'm using VmPlayer |
Kaj 26-Nov-2006 [651x2] | Yes, there's an external site hosting VMWare images. It's linked from our announcement of 0.6.2 and from our Get It page |
Note that, although behavior in VMWare is improved with this release, speed is not optimal. There are a few tricks to improve it | |
Alan 26-Nov-2006 [653x2] | ok thanks dling now |
ok got it running but does not seem like a normal *nix system.Mainly I was trying to find the /mnt dir and does not seem like it has 1 ?Also I got the email program set up and it dled my mail but was not able to open the folder ? | |
Kaj 29-Nov-2006 [655x4] | That's right, Syllable is not Unix. Indeed there is no /mnt directory. There could be, and like Unix, volumes can be mounted anywhere in the file tree, but the convention is to mount volumes in the root: / |
On the desktop, you can open the Disks folder, and then rightclick in the background to get a mount dialog and choose an available volume. Those will be mounted in the root. Manually in the terminal, you could mount volumes anywhere with the mount and unmount commands | |
A clear distinction from Unix is that the root of the filesystem is virtual (it's kept in a RAM disk). Links, directories and mounts there are cleared when the system is rebooted | |
What exactly happened with the Whisper mail program? How could you not open what folder? | |
Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [659] | Hm, the screen corruption in VMWare should be fixed in 0.6.2 |
Graham 10-Dec-2006 [660] | is this 0.6.2 version I downloaded? |
Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [661] | Graham, do you mean the terminal doesn't open? |
Graham 10-Dec-2006 [662x2] | Yep. |
Double click on the terminal icon on the desktop .. nothing happens. | |
Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [664] | It should be 0.6.2. Look in the Syllable menu upper left and then About |
Graham 10-Dec-2006 [665] | I did that ... |
Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [666] | What version does it say? |
Graham 10-Dec-2006 [667x2] | 0.6.2 |
screen full of corrupted Abrowse screens. Rebooting the image. | |
Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [669] | What does the screen corruption look like? |
Graham 10-Dec-2006 [670x2] | Like it's not refreshing the screen. |
Won't shut down either. going to kill it via windows task manager. | |
Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [672x2] | Better use Ctrl-Alt-Del |
If you move the mouse over it, does that part get drawn? That was the old problem | |
Graham 10-Dec-2006 [674x3] | Just rebooted .. |
I typed http://www.rebol.com/in the browser ... and it's not doing much. | |
the terminal now opens but leaves a trial all over the browser as I move the terminal window around ...so i guess the browser is busy | |
Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [677x2] | Yes |
It's using DHCP, so VMWare has to be configured to support that | |
Graham 10-Dec-2006 [679x2] | Oh .. |
All the other vmware images I have used seem to browse fine. | |
Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [681] | I think something needs to be configured, but I don't know what |
Graham 10-Dec-2006 [682] | Most things don't work I'm afraid. |
Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [683] | Maybe you have to set Syllable to DHCP, in the Network Preferences |
Graham 10-Dec-2006 [684x2] | terminal prompts don't appear. |
Apps window doesn't open. | |
Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [686] | I thought you had a terminal now? |
Graham 10-Dec-2006 [687x2] | It disappeared on me. |
there's a task bar on the top .. | |
Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [689] | I never heard of so many problems in VMWare. Does it emulate a multicore CPU or something? |
Graham 10-Dec-2006 [690] | it shows two terminals running .. but both are unresponsive. |
Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [691] | What CPU do you have? |
Graham 10-Dec-2006 [692x2] | Mobile Pentium |
laptop | |
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