World: r3wp

There's a specific open-source license for that, but never heard 
of it again

Open source only works if it's egalitarian

Multi-user: check (unlike Haiku)

so, can 10 users be logged in to the same PC with their own video 
cards,keyboards and mice?

simultaneously?

The army can use it if they want. I think it's our responsibility 
to take the technology in our own hands and become a people's army 
again

No, partly because we don't support multiple video cards yet

oh .. no multiple monitors then either?

ie. dual head videocards

Not yet

open office?

Graham - you are pushing too hard :-) Those questions will get Kaj 
into depression. You surely don't want him becoming part of your 
EMR system, right? :-)

just looking at the chess screenshot .. white is playing an unusual 
opening

:-)

black's last move was e7-e5 which sacrifices a pawn for no good reason.

I think you need a better screenshot!

:)))

Pekr, an OS that boots in 10 seconds, has a fully functional scriptable 
browser, printing, and rebol would be ideal for my EMR as a client 
platforml.

Skype as well would be good.

Graham - what about some small linux distros? E.g. knoppix?

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Yeah, OOo is depressing

I'll relay the Chess complaint :-)

I've downloaded a livePC of DSL but couldn't get it to work for me 
... no internet connectivity.  Maybe it's because I tried a vista 
host.

It's bug 248:

http://development.syllable.org/BugDar/showreport.php?bugid=248

LOL

Which bug tracker are you using?

See the attribution at the bottom of the page http://www.bluestatic.org/software/bugdar/

Yeah, actually that was a misspost, I wanted to actually ask, why 
is he not using Trac?

trac spam?

Bugdar was chosen without discussion by our webmaster from a while 
ago, but it's actually a fairly nice, simple tracker, that does what 
it says: just bug tracking. I've always found Trac a bit too convoluted. 
You have to buy in to the whole concept and then it defines your 
entire site. We already have a site that we built from pieces that 
we customized, so Bugdar was a reasonable addition

I do want to replace the entire site piece meal with our own REBOL 
system in the future, though

By the way, the author of Puri Chess has responded

wow, only at bug 248?

It hasn't been open that long. :-) About eight monts now. The current 
Syllable release is the first one that was produced under formal, 
public bug tracking, so a lot of bugs got squashed. Previously, we 
didn't have very many reports, and the time to fix them is scarce, 
anyway

almost seems like you should give a gift to the person who reports 
bug 250... a free copy of syllable   ;-p

Another way to look at it is that only a few percent of our code, 
like 1 or 2 %, is ours. The rest is all ported and adapted, so for 
an operating system in its development phase, made by a handful of 
people, it's amazingly stable

:-)

I promise to download the vmware image in the near future.

Great :-)

there is also the DSL which is tempting me...

If near is in the order of weeks, it would be best to wait for 0.6.4

(just for linux compatibility testing... I myself HATE linux for 
the desktop)

bah, vmware images are non aggressive things :-)  I was thinking 
before that... does syllable have a C compiler setup internally within 
syllable?

Not in the base distribution, but you only have to install the Developer's 
Delight package, and maybe a few other individual packages depending 
on what you want to compile

hehe  I love the name... I can see will ferell singing it in my mind 
 :-)

Oh well .. mea culpa.  But white should not be in this position in 
the first place.

Well, I guess white is having a bad day. :-) I don't know if it's 
the human or the computer

The 2007 Syllable Conference was held last weekend, on the Frisian 
sailing ship Stêd Sleat. We called it "Boat to Freedom". :-) My report 
is here: