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Thanks, I'll try

Graham...  ODBC is supported on linux...  Here's on open source Firebird 
ODBC driver. http://www.xtgsystems.com/linux/ofbodbc/about.php

That's just one of the first links that I pulled off of Google, I 
didn't look very hard.

I set up a connection to MySQL from linux using MyODBC drivers back 
in 2002.  I'm sure if you wanted to you could get an ODBC set up 
running that would allow you to use Firebird from Linux.

Ammon - the thing might be, that maybe Linux version of Command does 
not support ODBC at all?

I was using a Linux version of Command to set it up.

Carl's answer - http://www.reboltalk.com/forum/index.php/topic,304.0.html

I know I had REBOL connecting to MySQL via ODBC on Linux...  I was 
playing with WINE heavily at the time though so I might have been 
running a windows version of REBOL on Linux to do it. ;-)

since Command on Linux does not support ODBC, I think that must have 
been the case!

What is your take on Gnome vs KDE? I know many prefer Gnome, but 
from what I've read about KDE 4, I think I like their concept :-)

KDE seems to be fully vector based desktop in the future. Also there 
will be common app IPC mechanism called D-Bus.

Maybe we should use something like 'liquid to base VID+ IPC upon 
:-)

Hehe, KDE 4 designer (or Trolltech's dev, dunno), just pissed off 
some Cairo fanboys :-) http://zrusin.blogspot.com/

Conclusion from all those tests is that right now Qt is leaps ahead 
of any other vector graphics framework in terms of raw performance. 
Nothing comes even close. Qt's OpenGL engine is so fast it's basically 
unfair to compare anything else to it.

I liked KDE when it started with version 1.0, then it started to 
look like a PlayMobil/Lego Desktop, now its upto perfect and leaves 
gnome far behind, not only based on GUI but also based on pratical 
use ;-)... But it still eats a damm lot of resources... you need 
to tune , but thats fun ;-)

My view is that KDE has always had better internals, but Gnome has 
a better interface

Let's put it this way: if I think about the technology under the 
hood, I don't like using Gnome, but working with KDE's user interface 
makes me cringe all the time

By the way, D-BUS is currently used much more in Gnome than in KDE. 
Case in point: Gnome hardly had anything before, but KDE has to move 
away from its own DCOP IPC

i'm using xfce and it's much better than KDE or Gnome (at least from 
my POV). Not so bloated, fast and configurable enough.

Gnome vs. KDE: I gave up on KDE ages ago. It has pretty good underpinnings, 
but the philosophy of cramming every possible feature into the GUI 
just makes it a nightmare to use. I don't know about KDE4, so I won't 
say much about that.

Gnome has a much better interface, but still a far way to go. It's 
exactly the opposite of KDE. I wish the two would go together and 
create a new desktop, based on KDE's underpinnings and Gnome's GUI.

But for serious work I prefer WindowMaker with GNUstep apps.

Well, you know where the best of both worlds is to be had ;-)

how do i set the network server for emstp on linux ?

oops i see

hmm, how do i set it to use local sendmail ?

Well, you don't ... rebol does not support sending email using sendmail, 
but

if you have a version with command-shell support ( call ) you can 
probably create the command line to call sendmail yourself ... I 
don't know how to do this, though.

CALL was freed for use in unlicensed Rebol/View some time ago.

I think interfacing with sendmail via the command line would be through 
the standard "mail" command, if sendmail is properly configured as 
standard MTA

The alternative would be to make sendmail listen on the local loopback 
network address, so you could use the REBOL send function

Linux newbie here.

Downloaded vmplayer, and a Fedora 6 core image.  Run the Fedora, 
and then downloaded Rebol core for Linux libc

when I try to run Rebol, nothing happens.  The permissions say it 
is an executable though.

Is this the wrong version for Fedora ?

Graham, I use Mandriva and dled the debian version and it works

or on a side note,try this new distro    http://www.ulteo.com/main/download.php

it was made by the guy who started the Mandrake distro and then got 
fired when Mandriva took over

Alan, I'm running this under Windows so need to find a Vmware appliance 
..

Ok, found a Mandriva appliance .. downloading it.

900Mb later .. no go.  The Mandriva Vmware appliance just keeps cycling 
on me. :)

Do

ldd rebol

to see what libraries it needs, then see if you have them installed

Thanks.  It says libstdc++.so.5 not found ... everything else is 
found.

How do I install that?

This might help - http://blogs.activestate.com/kevinw/2006/02/libstdc5_how_to.html

I found another site that said I should do this:

yum install compat-libstdc++-33


which I did .. and after a few things printed to the screen .. it's 
just sitting there :(

...sorry .. no experience of yum ....I'm as new to Linux as you ...I 
installed Ubuntu desktop as a dual-boot on my XP machine.

...silly question ...have you downloaded the library?

I think the rpm was already present ..and so yum was doing it's thing. 
 1 hour later, it's still parsing the input parameters :(

I managed to get a Suse livePC running .. and Rebol runs.