http://www.osnews.com/story/239/Interview_with_Rocklyte_s_Paul_Manias Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:09:31 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Damn OSnews. If you keep having all these neat articles, I'll never find time to study. Thu, 01 Nov 2001 03:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? There seems to be a very disproportionate amount of NZers developing languages and OSes these days The REBOL list is inundated with us so are the dev forums for lots of other 'fringe' (ie non linux, non windows) coding areas.

Personally I'd rather use REBOL/View over Athene any day - all those loverly little gui things like blurring, gradients etc are already there. Also Carl and Holger have mentioned on the Rebol mailing list that the next version of REBOL/View with Alpha blending and lots of other goodies is almost done

Heh.. sorry Rocklyte, I'm a GUI freak Thu, 01 Nov 2001 04:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? The Solaris X-server can now support many graphics cards because it has an interface for XFree86 drivers. OSKit Mach can support many devices by using Linux 2.2 or FreeBSD drivers. Could a version of Athene for the Linux framebuffer, or a native Athene OS, get its hardware support this way? Thu, 01 Nov 2001 12:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Have any of you played around with this? Both the interface and the DML scripting system. How responsive is it? Is it interesting? Does it seem like a pretty interesting and complete API/package, or just like some weird markuplanguage visual basic? Sat, 03 Nov 2001 07:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? I played with it, but not extensively. Why don't you download it and check it out yourself? It is only 1.1 MB and it is available for both linux and Windows with an easy setup mechanism for both platforms. Sat, 03 Nov 2001 18:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? This sounds like a nice way to deliver applications to users from within a hardware and OS-neutral environment. Given that, it sounds like they are trying to do a lot of the things that Sun originally set out to do with their Java platform. Any thoughts on how Athene/Pandora's approach compares to Sun's -- in particular, how this system will avoid the pitfalls that seem to have marginalized Java into just server-side-scripting and toy applets? Wed, 12 Dec 2001 02:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments