World: r3wp
[Linux] group for linux REBOL users
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| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [928x3] | I gave Syllable to Carl a year ago in Milan. He was toying with the thought of trying to compile REBOL, but he probably didn't |
R3 will definitely be a better base to port, and I will try it when the open-source layer is released | |
Syllable uses ELF executable format like modern Linux, so there's a chance we would be able to use the R3 library for x86 Linux | |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [931x3] | that would be good. |
What resolution does the Syllable livePC run at? | |
screen rez ... | |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [934] | Syllable's default resolution is always 640x480, unless you set it otherwise. Why? |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [935x3] | bit retro ! |
I would want 1024x768 at least. | |
The Suse Live PC I tried won't go above 640x480 as well I think. | |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [938x2] | You can simply set that |
Setting the resolution has traditionally been a problem on Linux, so that could be the case with that SUSE | |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [940] | have you tried the LivePC ? |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [941x2] | No, but it should function the same as standard VMWare images, and I've never heard of resolution problems with those |
Have you tried that Syllable LivePC? Does it have a problem? | |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [943x2] | No, I downloaded an ISO image before and burnt that. |
but I have run out of quota till the end of the month so can't download anything :( | |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [945] | Probably better. I don't know if the LivePC has been updated to 0.6.2 |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [946] | You should try and push Carl to port Rebol. |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [947] | You have quotas on your side of the world? ;-) |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [948x2] | Yeah ... |
one month I went $300 over quota :( | |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [950] | Carl is not easily pushed. I'll port the open-source layer when it's there, and if it doesn't work I'll bug him again |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [951] | Do you have an idea of how hard it would be to do a port ? |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [952x3] | No quotas here, just vague threats that there might be one |
I've ported many languages to Syllable, and it's usually not hard. There are exceptions, and it might be more difficult to get all features to work, but REBOL is very portable, so it should be easy | |
On the other hand, not having the full source could cause problems that only RT could solve | |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [955x2] | LivePC is 0.6.2 |
Also, I see a vmware image | |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [957] | Oh, cool, they're keeping close tags on it, then |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [958] | Pity they don't advise the download size on the download page with checksums |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [959] | It shouldn't be much bigger than our standard install CD. I seem to remember something around 70 MB |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [960x2] | Ok. |
Is Firefox going to be ported .. or are you stuck with Abrowse ? | |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [962] | But if you have our 0.6.2 ISO, why not install that in VMWare? |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [963x2] | Must have been 6 months or more ago that I downloaded the ISO. |
maybe a year. | |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [965] | 0.6.2 is a lot better :-) |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [966x3] | Abrowse? |
Is that the Amiga browser? | |
from Canada | |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [969x2] | We've attempted Firefox, but it's hard. Bloated stuff, as so many things. It will happen someday, but not soon. Arno is trying to port the Safari engine now |
No, it's our AtheOS-Browse :-) | |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [971] | OK. |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [972] | It's based on KHTML, so it's quite good. Years before Apple did that |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [973] | are you porting to PDAs or phones ? |
| Kaj 10-Dec-2006 [974] | Not at the moment |
| Graham 10-Dec-2006 [975x3] | I see the boot code is written in assembler |
Should have used Forth :) | |
Made it more portable. | |
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