On 4/11/12 2:37 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
David,
Fair enough - thanks for the scouting report. I hope you are wrong about separate binaries. It would be sad enough if we had to detect the distro and act accordingly :( A candidate for that is Ubuntu's integration of dynamic library loading with dlconfig. I think they have a good idea, but Cog goes to pieces trying to decorate the library name, when the module name as given is the place to look first. I would like to see other distros implement the Ubuntu solution, because it *really* makes sense.
To make things even more complicated, I'm actually playing with Fedora since it's going to be the default OS for the Raspberry Pi. I'm really hoping someone picks up the GSOC CogVM Arm project, but I intend to help with this effort regardless. As an aside, I've been playing with Squeak 4.2 on the BeagleBone (headless ARM board running Angstrom linux), which compiles and runs without issue. It's really fun to read sensors and blink LEDs from smalltalk, and now a smalltalk powered robot is slowly taking shape in my workshop. :)
What do you think of Gnome 3? Any recommendations to escape it (I'm not a fan). Unity is the sole reason I'm looking at other distros - given Gnome 2, I'd be an Ubuntu guy in perpetuity.
Have you tried Linux Mint?
Bill