On 5/24/05, Jesse Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some time ago I was asking on GNUstep list, whether it is possible to have > > running GNUstep from a portable media. I have received no answer so far. > > Anyway, it can be great if instead of having Etoile Live CD for the Etoile > > OS we can have Etoile Live package that can be put on a CD, USB key or iPod > > and run from everywhere. > > This reminded me of a couple of things: > > Inferno as an IE plugin: > http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/plugin.html > > Puppy multi-session LiveCD: > http://www.goosee.com/puppy/multi-puppy.htm > > > And what it seems like you're suggesting is almost exactly what Squeak is: > an image that runs on a platform specific VM: > http://www.squeak.org/features/vm.html
Which is kinda a problem-- it seems to me that we want something that is very close to smalltalk ;-) -- then the question is, why are we working on Étoilé instead of taking Squeak ? -- Nicolas Roard "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke
