Syllable gets a beta of a brand new installer and an ISO is up for testing. Update: A VMWare driver too.
Syllable Gets a New Installer
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Woohoo, that one certainly required a lot of coding genius 😉
Now i will try Syllable.
Does it work with vmware?
Cheers
I didn’t use the new installer but the old one, but from what it looks like they added in the new installer is that they dint add the largest flaw in it, it doesn’t install grub. it gets to the end and tells you how to set up grub’s menu but even if you est it up corectly it doesn’t install grub to the mbr or anyware else. after you save the menu file it says “Don’t forget to install grub” but the grub installer isn’t anyware in the system I spent about an hour of searching thrue the file system looking for the grub command but it was no ware. found out after about an hour of searching the web from the install file for version 0.44 tells how to install grub, you have to hit c when you boot off the cd to get to grubs command interface and type in the commands that will install it to the mbr.
once I had it setup. the system itself is a good start its very beta at this point so not much to say. what I found funny thoe is that the web browser doesn’t work on thier own homepage, again very very beta software as in version 0.3
Yes, there are problems with the “grubinstall” program on Syllable. The issues are fairly complex so we havn’t solved them yet.
what I found funny thoe is that the web browser doesn’t work on thier own homepage
It’s more correct to say that the Syllable website doesn’t work with ABrowse. ABrowse is based on a 3 year old version of khtml which doesn’t support CSS very well, and the Syllable website is designed for more modern browsers in mind. “Fixing” the website would be cheating; what we need to do is to update or replace ABrowse with something more modern
It runs on everything else, someone might as well port mozilla.
Gecko by itself would be nicer though. Mozilla’s GUI frontend is so heavy and bloated, it is painfully slow on anything but the most modern system.
I spent about an hour of searching thrue the file system looking for the grub command
Hey! I did the same! 😉
As for the web browser, the current version of khtml is easily as good as gecko. In fact, Ive been using it exclusively since I installed kde 3.2, and I’ve seen only a few sites the didn’t render correctly.
There are a few teams that have stripped all the QT parts out of khtml(One of the wine dev’s did that, for example). It might be easiest to port one of those.
khtml still has downright pitiful dhtml support compared to mozilla based browsers.
Why on earth moderate down this?
“Syllable lost a syllable in the topic line.”
Who’s going to take offence? It’s actually quite funny.
As regards the web page /web browser, I don’t agree that the web page shouldn’t be ‘fixed’. Everyone designing web pages should remember that they should be easy to read and access in ANY browser (OS News for example), not just the latest browsers which might require somthing that we don’t necessarily want, eg. Flash. Why not have a text only option for a basic version of the site.
>”Syllable lost a syllable in the topic line.”
It is just a typo that was fixed, the comment was not relevant anymore. And at the end of the day, “syllable” is a greek word and it doesn’t have an “l” after “b” anyway. 😉