World: r3wp

The Open Source community took an emotional hit when veteran Linux 
programmer Hans Reiser was convicted of first degree murder. How 
will this verdict impact the technology in play for Linux file system 
dominance?  

really??

sounds like a slashdot headline

That news has been hanging over ReiserFS for a long time now.  At 
least people know now.   Ext3 has always treated me ok.  My guess 
is, ReiserFS will lose to Ext3.   OR ... get a name change, quick 
fix to the politics.

Will rebol run on a 64 bit Linux box? or only 32 bit?

Hummm. I'm using AltMe on a 64 bit Linux box, so I guess that is 
my answer.

But rebolview for Debian does not load on my Kubuntu machine.  Well, 
actually it loads, but after I give my user info it dies and won'

t load again.

Louis, rebol 2.7.6?

Yes.

What is Linux PPC?

Linux running on PowerPC hardware, I guess.

Like some Mac computers.

And PlayStation 3.

rebview-ppc.gzip contains rebview-ppc.gzip.  Is that what it is supposed 
to contain?

I think you are right, Geomol. Neither Linux x86 nor Linux PPC will 
work for me. I'm probably doing something wrong.

Have you tried starting rebol from a terminal program?

No, that is a good idea. I'll try.

No success.

Hm, strange. And rebol is executable?
chmod +x rebol

The last thing, I can think of, is correct version of libc.

libc? I'm new to Linux, so is very likely something very simple.

[Dad-:-sim-v]:~/rebol-276$ chmod +x rebol
[Dad-:-sim-v]:~/rebol-276$ rebol
bash: rebol: command not found

I'm afraid not. You still have to be some kind of a hacker to get 
some things working under Linux.
Try:
./rebol

or put rebol in a location, where you path point to. E.g.: /usr/local/bin/

Ok, that works. Thanks!  I can see that I have a little bit of studying 
to do to learn the commands .

You're welcome! :-)

Well worth the effort Louis.  GNU/Linux is and always has been my 
favourite "IDE".   :)

btiffin, Well, I've had many problems with XP, so I'm ready to move 
on. Most of the software I'm been using on XP was ported from Linus. 
Only a few are genuine XP programs. So, I'

m hoping they will work on XP runnning under Virtualbox.

Wine is your friend for most Windows needs under GNU/Linux.   It's 
just better, smarter, stronger.  But ... it does require learning 
a little bit about computing.  Something MS seems to want to keep 
to themselves for that whole, lock in mentality their stock price 
is based on.

My XP machine presently freezes up randomly. It may be caused by 
a virus, but Kapersky can't find it. Ghost will not boot up to restore 
my backup. So, I'm rather disgusted with XP at the moment. Actually, 
I don't even want to run it under Virtualbox.

Do you recommend wine over Virtualbox?

Never tried Virtualbox.  Wine is great though.  WineHQ pumps out 
releases on a very regular basis.  It gets better everyday and they 
package it up for apt, rpm and most GNU/Linux binary package managers.

And the developers are gamers too, so the list of supported apps 
usually starts with games, then works down through the other applications.

http://www.winehq.orgfor more info.

I just looked.  Yesterday they announced a freeze for Wine 1.0   
Woohoo.   Yes, there will be incompatibilities, but it seems the 
principals feel it's ready  for a 1.0 tag.  Great news.

Hope they fix that decimal bug.

Do any of you guys use Linux without a gui? I note that

Gimp can be loaded from the command console. Could it be loaded if 
there were no gui such as KDE?

Unless you are using gimp script, I would think you would at least 
need an X server somewhere.

If so, it seems to me that work would go a lot faster without the 
gui once the main Linux commands are learned. Am I right about this?

You would be wrong about the problem domain that is covered by your 
example app, Gimp. Other problem domains could be different though.

I would be slowed down - I can't type very quickly.

What do you mean by "problem domain"?

In this case, image editing.

I mean the general kind of problem an app is supposed to help with.

Ok, I see what you mean. I guess it would be best to keep all options 
open. I've just be intriged by how much faster one can, for example, 
locate files use the command console---it is almost instant.

Thanks, Brian.

coLinux-based distributiins manage just fine on Windows with just 
console and networking support - all of the GUI and sound stuff comes 
from servers running as native Windows apps and talking over the 
network connection.

Most of what I do could in theory be done from the command line (I 
don't edit images much), but the gain or loss in productivity varies.