Hi All,
This project is a breath of fresh air. I had being thinking about a
desktop very-much like the one you propose. I thought I was being
original, but it appears this Document/Object orientated model is one
that has been researched and implemented before, albeit with little
commercial success. I have to agree with the sentiments expressed on
your website, this model will be most successful implemented in Free
Software.
For the first time in a long time, this is some software technology
I can get excited about. I've looked at many different desktop
environments in the past RISC OS, Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Windows, and Mac OS
X, and I have not seen any significant deferences between the lot. The
modular and dynamic approach I feel this project is aiming for, is in my
opinion, the future of personal computing.
So alas I am very interested in contributing to this project. I
believe myself to be an average computer programmer, with a fair
technical knowledge. Unfortunately thus far in my tinkering I've had
little to no experience with Objective-C or SmallTalk. However I know
C, C++, Java, Ruby, Python and for my sins C#, so I feel I will pick it
up pretty quickly.
I have checked-out the latest snapshot from svn, but I am
experiencing some difficulty compiling it. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10, and
have downloaded and installed the latest SVN version of GNUstep. The
error I'm receiving has something to with EtoileThread specifically:
Making all for framework EtoileThread...
Compiling file ETThread.m ...
ETThread.m:1: error: CPU you selected does not support x86-64
instruction set
ETThread.m:1: error: CPU you selected does not support x86-64
instruction set
make[4]: *** [obj/ETThread.m.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [EtoileThread.all.framework.variables] Error 2
make[2]: *** [internal-all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [internal-all] Error 2
make: *** [internal-all] Error 2
What does it all mean? Is x86-64 not supported, or (more likely) am I
missing something really obvious.
Thanks for any advice in advance. And keep up the good work!
James Cox
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