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[Syllable] The free desktop and server operating system family
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| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [675x2] | 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 [692x3] | Mobile Pentium |
laptop | |
centrino | |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [695] | Hyperthreading? Multicore? |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [696x3] | HT I think |
not multicore | |
maybe not even HT | |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [699] | SMP doesn't support all SMP-type configurations yet. You could try disabling it |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [700] | in preferences? |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [701] | A boot parameter needs to be added to the GrUB menu. It's a bit tricky |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [702x2] | I see :( |
well, nothing is responding .. so time to kill vmware player again. | |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [704] | I think you would be best off trying the live CD, not VMWare. And then choose the menu option to disable SMP |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [705x2] | Ok, maybe another day. |
the live cd I tried before was much better experience than this | |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [707x2] | Yes, it's strange. VMWare is a well-defined environment, and it works fairly well for people |
But it's still emulation, of cource. It can never be as good as the live CD - and the live CD can never be as good as an installed system | |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [709] | Well, Reichart will tell you that I can break anything! |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [710] | :-) |
| Kaj 5-Mar-2007 [711x6] | We just released Syllable 0.6.3: |
http://syllable.org/story.php?id=255 | |
Here are the highlights: | |
* A cleaner, fresher looking Desktop
* Initial support for printing with CUPS
* Support for Broadcom Gigabit ethernet cards
* Support for USB CD-ROM drives
* Rendering and graphics speed improvements
* The GRUB boot loader can now be installed automatically
* New versions of many applications, including AEdit, AView and Whisper
* Improved media support and playback
* Many bug fixes and improved application compatibility
* Many improved drivers
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Just before the previous release four months ago, 0.6.2, we introduced automatic weekly builds of the entire system, and a bug tracker on the web. So this is the first release that we have developed under full bug tracking and weekly builds | |
As a result, many bugs were reported and fixed, so this release has much improved overall quality | |
| Maxim 5-Mar-2007 [717] | congratulations for all that work. |
| Kaj 5-Mar-2007 [718x2] | Thanks |
In terms of REBOL, I extended upon the pkgmanager system tool that I rewrote in ORCA. It has a new interface and is now called Packager, or the package command | |
| Maxim 5-Mar-2007 [720] | can the "official" REBOL run on it? emulated or otherwise? |
| Kaj 5-Mar-2007 [721] | Not natively. We're waiting for the REBOL 3 open-source layer to port it |
| Maxim 5-Mar-2007 [722x3] | that is good news :-) |
one developper question: how much of the old Amiga RKMs still apply within Syllable? | |
0% 10% 50% ? | |
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